IS WASHING YOUR CAR IN A BIKINI, LIKE IN ‘BRING IT ON,’ ACTUALLY BETTER FOR YOU?
The bikini car wash is basically just a hypersexual trope, but maybe it’s also not a bad method for burning calories

In movies like Bring It On, bikini-clad cheerleaders sud up Toyota Corollas with oversized sponges, “accidentally” dripping ropes of white soap on their chests and giggling as the other gals playfully spray them with the hose, all to raise money for their squad. Perhaps (almost definitely) the bikinis are an intentional part of the promotion, or maybe the bikinis are simply the practical choice of attire when participating in outdoor water-related activities.

The coronavirus pandemic has made something of a celebrity out of the N95 mask, a particle-filtering face covering that’s long been used to protect wearers from inhaling or exhaling pathogens. (The “95” refers to the fact it can block 95 percent of airborne particles.)

Like most nondescript and pervasive products, not many people stop to think about where it came from. Now, owing to the attention placed on it as a key tool in the health care professional’s fight against coronavirus, the woman behind the mask has come to the forefront. Her name is Sara Little Turnbull, and she designed what would become the N95 based on the shape of a bra cup.

The last four days in Philadelphia have been rife with violence, arson, and looting. Understandably, most business owners – whose businesses aren’t already destroyed – did their best to protect their property from the Philadelphia thugs.

Then a few of them tried to loot a store, just not exactly the store clear thinking individuals would consider robbing…

Philadelphia police said the owner of Firing Line Inc. was staying the night inside the shop on South Front Street because over the last few nights someone had tried breaking in.

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Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Social Distancing.

Notice: Posted with permission by the Ace Media Empire and AceCorp, LLC. Do not taunt the hamsters.

Have to pass this along even though its better suited for tomorrow's book thread:

[]@NPR

In essence, "decolonizing your bookshelf" is about actively resisting and casting aside the colonialist ideas of narrative, storytelling, and literature that have pervaded the American psyche for so long says @itsjuanlove

As John Nolte advises: save your ebooks to a secure device, because that sounds a lot like its now book-burning time.

31In essence, "decolonizing your bookshelf" is about
actively resisting and casting aside the colonialist ideas of narrative,
storytelling, and literature that have pervaded the American psyche for
so long says @itsjuanlove

As John Nolte advises: save your ebooks to a secure device, because that sounds a lot like its now book-burning time.

34
An old college buddie of mine introduced me to the Ramones when I was an 18 year old freshman. Took me to a club. I caught one of the picks that DeeDee (ithink) flicked out into the audience. Good times. I miss that buddy of mine. Haven't seen him in 30 years.

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Anytime I open a new tab it brings up a table of promoted articles. Usually they are lefty drivel of some sort from The Atlantic, NYT, etc. It is now a barrage of how black people are horribly treated. Fine, let me know which 13% of the country they want and they can have it. I'm done.

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Well it's Frey's city that caused all this. Where were the mayor and police chief when they should have reviewed the policy. This technique has been used many times since 2015 and NBC says it was in the Minneapolis policy manual at the time of Floyd's death. Where was Keith Ellison? Where was Governor Walz? Why is Trump in charge of every police force in the nation? It was the responsibility of Minneapolis to regulate its police, not the feds. Frey had 2.5 yeas to look at policy and procedure. This national nightmare if Frey's fault and Hodges before him.

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84 You are all great, by which I mean wonderful. See you tomorrow!
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 06, 2020 10:02 PM (l9m7l)

What? You're leaving without sharing what you were going to share? Uncool.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 10:06 PM (OzQGF)

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Minneapolis cuck-boi mayor Jacob Frey forced to do a Game-of-Thrones style "Walk of Shame" after going out to meet protesters:

https://tinyurl.com/frey-shame

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 06, 2020 10:06 PM (hKLpI)

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Wow just heard on radio at Floyd's memorial Mayor Frey wouldn't say he wanted to defund the police so the crowd turned on him.

Posted by: kallisto at June 06, 2020 10:06 PM (d6Zcu)

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The ex has a Cheap Trick pick she got when they played the club she waitressed at when we were at Ft Hood. She displays it as a thing of honor. I saw them in Omaha in the mid 70's at the peak, what a show.

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104 Wow just heard on radio at Floyd's memorial Mayor Frey wouldn't say he wanted to defund the police so the crowd turned on him.
Posted by: kallisto at June 06, 2020 10:06 PM (d6Zcu)
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Heh.
Now, if only the crowd demanded the same of Joe Biden when he attends whatever memorial he's supposed to attend!
Let's see the old fart get "defund the police" clearly on his record.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 06, 2020 10:15 PM (M/9m0)

144
If we defund the police, will we have to use volunteer police like the fire department does?

Posted by: ALH at June 06, 2020 10:15 PM (Lhcx9)

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I quit listening to Jeff Beck when I realized that I was gritting my teeth the whole time. Mom spent too much money on the Dentist for that. And thats why theres meth right?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 06, 2020 10:15 PM (iymtC)

146
Thanks for the Quarantine Kids. That is the cutest family. Loved theGranny joke.

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They don't mean to dismantle or defund the police. They know better than that, because eventually they would be very, very dead. I think they mean to start a new-bolshevik-fascist enforcement organization of some flavor or another, I expect.

What happens when any sane person and business deletes their property and sales tax revenue?

Posted by: ALH at June 06, 2020 10:12 PM (Lhcx9)
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I dunno but abolishing the police and prisons has been an explicitly stated goal of the BLM-Foundation for a few years.

Not that many of the chumps donating big bucks to BLMF know. Or believe. Or care.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 06, 2020 10:20 PM (M/9m0)

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This idea of defunding the police is causing a rift between old school dems and their AOC type teammates.

Posted by: kallisto at June 06, 2020 10:21 PM (d6Zcu)

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144 If we defund the police, will we have to use volunteer police like the fire department does?
Posted by: ALH at June 06, 2020 10:15 PM (Lhcx9)

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FUN FACT: Neither Republican nor Imperial Rome had any type of municipal police force. Political factions had their own roving street gangs and prominent people had to provide their own personal protection.

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If you think you can, well come on man
I was a Green Beret in Viet Nam
No more of your fairy stories
'Cause I got my other worries

53rd and 3rd
Standing on the street
53rd and 3rd
I'm tryin' to turn a trick.....

The Ramones had their own way with words.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 06, 2020 10:21 PM (Z+IKu)

178
Lots of 30 and 40 something white women happily protesting at High St and Rt161 here in my little suburb. All four corners filled with bouncy gals taking videos of themselves to post on FB(assumption on my part) so they can show how they're down with the struggle. I laughed and laughed.

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FUN FACT: Neither Republican nor Imperial Rome had any type of municipal police force. Political factions had their own roving street gangs and prominent people had to provide their own personal protection.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 06, 2020 10:21 PM (kVr0X)

So which Ette is going to be commander of AtC's Praetorians?

Posted by: Vanya at June 06, 2020 10:24 PM (BAsqb)

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>>> 56 Anytime I open a new tab it brings up a table of promoted articles. Usually they are lefty drivel of some sort from The Atlantic, NYT, etc. It is now a barrage of how black people are horribly treated. Fine, let me know which 13% of the country they want and they can have it. I'm done.
Posted by: WOPR - Looking for Filthy Lucre at June 06, 2020 09:55 PM (o+S+U)

The article I read at the Houston Chronicle didn't say bankruptcy explicitly, it just said they were closing and selling off all their assets.

Posted by: Robert at June 06, 2020 10:26 PM (xW4Id)

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56 Anytime I open a new tab it brings up a table of promoted articles. Usually they are lefty drivel of some sort from The Atlantic, NYT, etc. It is now a barrage of how black people are horribly treated. Fine, let me know which 13% of the country they want and they can have it. I'm done.
Posted by: WOPR - Looking for Filthy Lucre at June 06, 2020 09:55 PM (o+S+U)
How about Baja California.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 06, 2020 10:24 PM (0ReGO)

Alaska. Lots of room.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 06, 2020 10:26 PM (Z+IKu)

208I think they mean to start a new-bolshevik-fascist enforcement organization of some flavor or another, I expect.
Posted by: Common Tater at June 06, 2020 10:17 PM (B6WO/)

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203 I haven't heard any suggestions for how they plan to replace the revenue from police tickets, such as parking and driving-related fines. I can only imagine what they think . . .
Posted by: Lizzy at June 06, 2020 10:26 PM (bDqIh)

A mandatory speeding ticket lottery.

Posted by: jsg at June 06, 2020 10:28 PM (fDIwz)

216
Wait Luby's went out of business? I loved their fried chicken and macaroni and cheese

222
Lots of 30 and 40 something white women happily protesting at High St and Rt161 here in my little suburb. All four corners filled with bouncy gals taking videos of themselves to post on FB(assumption on my part) so they can show how they're down with the struggle. I laughed and laughed.
Posted by: Tuna at June 06, 2020 10:21 PM (gLRfa)

Bop over to NYT and screencap the headline of the op-ed they just published that is entitled, "How White Women Use Themselves As Instruments Of Terror". Send it along to them.

"Attention, you silly virtue signalling moos: When racial and ethnic tribalism are the order of the day, your skin is your uniform and yours is wrong. You are next on the menu. Act accordingly or be left to the wolves."

Posted by: Vanya at June 06, 2020 10:28 PM (BAsqb)

223FUN FACT: Neither Republican nor Imperial Rome had any type of municipal police force. Political factions had their own roving street gangs and prominent people had to provide their own personal protection.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 06, 2020 10:21 PM (kVr0X)

Nor a municipal fire service. That was a private service.

Some well-known and wealthy Roman whose name escapes me kept a personal fire service, and if a fire was reported, he'd make a denarii-on-the-aureus offer to sell out the houses to either side, then put the fire out.

"While I understand and respect the rights of individuals to protect their property, I am also deeply troubled at the ease with which another life has been taken among this chaos," Kenney said at a press conference Tuesday. Any life lost is sad, no matter the situation, the mayor said."

_________________________________________

Show of hands...who here is troubled by the ease in which this criminal was dispatched? I think that just shows that having your own firing range pays off in the long run. In addition, unlike the mayor I can think of a number of situations where loss of life is not sad. In some cases, it's just justice.

Posted by: Orson at June 06, 2020 10:29 PM (/1KEi)

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I had two months to prepare the annual church budget report, and here I sit 15 hours from go time with it half typed up.

Under pressure is when my best work is done.

But I've got to have a cocktail to make this happen, what say you Horde? Vodka, Gin, Rum or Whisky?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 06, 2020 10:24 PM (QW9VZ)

oh yeah, I remember Calvin and Hobbes.

Under pressure is when your ONLY work is done.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 10:27 PM

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Fun Fact : If you knocked on the front door of the White House while Lincoln was president, there was a very good chance Lincoln himself would have answered the door.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 10:30 PM (o1fzk)

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203 I haven't heard any suggestions for how they plan to replace the revenue from police tickets, such as parking and driving-related fines. I can only imagine what they think . . .
Posted by: Lizzy at June 06, 2020 10:26 PM (bDqIh)

The rich. And white people. And 'Big Corporations' who they will then condemn for leaving the area.

Posted by: Vanya at June 06, 2020 10:30 PM (BAsqb)

232
> But I've got to have a cocktail to make this happen, what say you Horde? Vodka, Gin, Rum or Whisky?

234
The October Surprise is gonna be fucking *lit*!
Posted by: Robert at June 06, 2020 10:22 PM (xW4Id)

My Libtard DIL posted the pic of the Donald on Facebook of him standing in front of that church holding a Bible, and the message board had his quote from the Access Hollywood tape. The one from the October 2016 Surprise.
I didn't comment, of course, I keep my thoughts to myself and thus maintain the Pax Familia so I can have unfettered access to the grandchild.
But I was thinking that was a pretty weak attack. Everyone says and does stupid stuff in their youth, Trump apologized for that, and besides, he never stuck his fingers up the crotch of a subordinate. He just said some vulgar stuff. Big whoop.

They are not heading for it too closely. The SS very sanely insisted on 8 foot tall (hopefully riot-proof) fencing that keeps them 1/3rd of a mile away.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 06, 2020 10:31 PM (nAiE/)

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> Some well-known and wealthy Roman whose name escapes me kept a personal fire service, and if a fire was reported, he'd make a denarii-on-the-aureus offer to sell out the houses to either side, then put the fire out.

Crassus.

One of the wealthiest people in history.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 06, 2020 10:31 PM (hKLpI)

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178 Lots of 30 and 40 something white women happily protesting at High St and Rt161 here in my little suburb. All four corners filled with bouncy gals taking videos of themselves to post on FB(assumption on my part) so they can show how they're down with the struggle. I laughed and laughed.
Posted

242
Lots of 30 and 40 something white women happily protesting at High St and Rt161 here in my little suburb. All four corners filled with bouncy gals taking videos of themselves to post on FB(assumption on my part) so they can show how they're down with the struggle. I laughed and laughed.
Posted by: Tuna at June 06, 2020 10:21 PM (gLRfa)

Bop over to NYT and screencap the headline of the op-ed they just published that is entitled, "How White Women Use Themselves As Instruments Of Terror". Send it along to them.

"Attention, you silly virtue signalling moos: When racial and ethnic tribalism are the order of the day, your skin is your uniform and yours is wrong. You are next on the menu. Act accordingly or be left to the wolves."
Posted by: Vanya at June 06, 2020 10:28 PM (BAsqb)

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> Fun Fact : If you knocked on the front door of the White House while Lincoln was president, there was a very good chance Lincoln himself would have answered the door.

When Harry Truman left office, he walked down to the train station, bought a ticket for home, and got on the train.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 06, 2020 10:32 PM (hKLpI)

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238 > Some well-known and wealthy Roman whose name escapes me kept a personal fire service, and if a fire was reported, he'd make a denarii-on-the-aureus offer to sell out the houses to either side, then put the fire out.
Crassus.

One of the wealthiest people in history.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 06, 2020 10:31 PM (hKLpI)

That trick also happened in late 19th century America, before public fire departments became a thing. Well, that was why Fire Departments became a thing.

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Some well-known and wealthy Roman whose name escapes me kept a personal fire service, and if a fire was reported, he'd make a denarii-on-the-aureus offer to sell out the houses to either side, then put the fire out.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 06, 2020 10:28 PM (t+qrx)

Crassus. He was one of the richest men in the known world for a while.

Then he decided that Caesar was getting too popular beating on the Gauls and he'd get himself some by conquering Parthia. Raised himself a bunch of Legions and went out there and invaded. The Parthians shot his army to pieces, captured him and executed him by pouring molten gold down his throat.

Posted by: Vanya at June 06, 2020 10:33 PM (BAsqb)

249
Show of hands...who here is troubled by the ease in
which this criminal was dispatched? I think that just shows that having
your own firing range pays off in the long run. In addition, unlike
the mayor I can think of a number of situations where loss of life is
not sad. In some cases, it's just justice.

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>>>Fun Fact : If you knocked on the front door of the White House while
Lincoln was president, there was a very good chance Lincoln himself
would have answered the door.<<<

With or without his trousers?

Posted by: Bill Clinton at June 06, 2020 10:34 PM (95j/9)

252"Attention, you silly virtue signalling moos: When racial and ethnic tribalism are the order of the day, your skin is your uniform and yours is wrong. You are next on the menu. Act accordingly or be left to the wolves."
Posted by: Vanya at June 06, 2020 10:28 PM (BAsqb)

258
what Trump said was absolutely true: if you have enough money, there is a certain subset of women, many of which are more than a lttle attractive, who will let you do just about anything, as long as you keep them in the lifestyle that they yearn to live... men too.

you see that here in Lost Angels all the time.

people were "outraged" because he published what has been an open secret for decades.

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 06, 2020 10:35 PM (5RpHt)

259
ALH, I saw the same one just now but it was posted by an internet friend from Germany.

Posted by: Robert at June 06, 2020 10:35 PM (xW4Id)

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When Harry Truman left office, he walked down to the train station, bought a ticket for home, and got on the train.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 06, 2020 10:32 PM (hKLpI)
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Harry Truman, you nuked two Japanese cities and got an unconditional surrender from Imperial Japan. What are you going to do next?

I drive a black car and I should have yelled out my window "Black Cars Matter". Regrettably I didn't think of it until I was a block past them.. Damn. Maybe they'll be there tomorrow.

Posted by: Tuna at June 06, 2020 10:35 PM (gLRfa)

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240 There used to be a Luby's about 4 blocks from me, I really liked that place, good old regular meals like are getting hard to find unless you cook them for yourself.

It closed down and got torn down a year ago now. Well, that was the end of Luby's for me.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Luby's was our after-church venue when we lived in Texas. The Luann platter and their uh-mazing chocolate cake, mercy, that was good. The kids always enjoyed gong through the line and making their own choices for a meal.

Posted by: Moki at June 06, 2020 10:35 PM (/H+aK)

263
NYT is reporting GWB will not support Trump and will endorse Biden

Posted by: Baseballisdead at June 06, 2020 10:35 PM (jjPW1)

264
The James Madison, sorry to have missed your post on Oliver Stone's Alexander the Great movie. Was taking a cat-nap.

Here was my reaction to the trailer for the movie and why I refused to give any money to Mr. Stone.

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I read up until World War I, or perhaps the "interwar years", Washington was a sleepy southern town and everybody who could got out of there in the summer. It is not a pleasant locale without air conditioning.

In those days apparently it was common for motorists to avoid summer thunderstorms by quickly dashing under the north (south?) portico of the White House for a few minutes to get out of the rain.

Don't try this these days.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 06, 2020 10:36 PM (B6WO/)

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263 NYT is reporting GWB will not support Trump and will endorse Biden
Posted by: Baseballisdead at June 06, 2020 10:35 PM (jjPW1)

Gotta keep that cheap labor

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 10:36 PM (ONvIw)

271Hope you are all doing well tonight! Just trying to stay positive with all this mayhem as left me exhausted.

274
NYT is reporting GWB will not support Trump and will endorse Biden
Posted by: Baseballisdead at June 06, 2020 10:35 PM (jjPW1)

The United States political establishment needs to be repurposed as fuel.

Posted by: Vanya at June 06, 2020 10:37 PM (BAsqb)

275
captured him and executed him by pouring molten gold down his throat.
Posted by: Vanya

Now, don't be talking that stuff

Posted by: Shit Midas at June 06, 2020 10:37 PM (QzkSJ)

276
Then he decided that Caesar was getting too popular beating on the Gauls and he'd get himself some by conquering Parthia. Raised himself a bunch of Legions and went out there and invaded. The Parthians shot his army to pieces, captured him and executed him by pouring molten gold down his throat.
Posted by: Vanya at June 06, 2020 10:33 PM (BAsqb)

The Parthians were always a pain in the ass for Rome. The list of assholes who tried to go over and knock down their apple cart is a long one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 06, 2020 10:37 PM (A5zUN)

277
The Parthians shot his army to pieces, captured him and executed him by pouring molten gold down his throat.
Posted by: Vanya at June 06, 2020 10:33 PM (BAsqb)

294
what Trump said was absolutely true: if you have enough money, there is a certain subset of women, many of which are more than a lttle attractive, who will let you do just about anything, as long as you keep them in the lifestyle that they yearn to live... men too.

you see that here in Lost Angels all the time.

people were "outraged" because he published what has been an open secret for decades.
Posted by: redc1c4 at June 06, 2020 10:35 PM (5RpHt)

If I had that kind of money I'd consider chasing after a few of the 'Ettes.

Posted by: Robert at June 06, 2020 10:39 PM (xW4Id)

295
I think at least three times Rome lost a legion or multiple legions. David Drake took one of the losses as his springboard for aliens buying the captured legions to fight their wars out in space.

You know it wasn't just "stuck", he was doing the wiggly kitchy-koo tickle finger curls up in there. Probably still has her dna under his finger nails and a hair or two.

Posted by: biden his time while banned at June 06, 2020 10:40 PM (EFwHO)

298
249. The Firing Line owner dispatched the perp with one shot to the noggin. His 3 cohorts fled, one was winged.

Posted by: kallisto at June 06, 2020 10:40 PM (d6Zcu)

299259 ALH, I saw the same one just now but it was posted by an internet friend from Germany.
Posted by: Robert at June 06, 2020 10:35 PM (xW4Id)

In English?

Trump's Facebook posts generate negative comments from lots of foreigners. I guess America First isn't working for everyone on the planet.

Posted by: ALH at June 06, 2020 10:40 PM (Lhcx9)

300
He sure did a number on Spartacus, though.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 06, 2020 10:36 PM (hKLpI)

Also true. I forgot about that.

Posted by: Vanya at June 06, 2020 10:40 PM (BAsqb)

301
What is the connection between George Floyd and Sports? My paper gave over the entire sports section the ENTIRE week to Floyd-related stories.Today there was a op-ed by some woman saying it's not enough for Drew Brees to apologize.

306
I think at least three times Rome lost a legion or multiple legions. David Drake took one of the losses as his springboard for aliens buying the captured legions to fight their wars out in space.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2020 10:39 PM (ecW2Y)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 06, 2020 10:42 PM (hKLpI)

312what Trump said was absolutely true: if you have enough money, there is a certain subset of women, many of which are more than a lttle attractive, who will let you do just about anything, as long as you keep them in the lifestyle that they yearn to live... men too.
you see that here in Lost Angels all the time.
people were "outraged" because he published what has been an open secret for decades.
Posted by: redc1c4 at June 06, 2020 10:35 PM (5RpHt)

That cannot possibly be true!

Posted by: H Weinstein at June 06, 2020 10:42 PM (mMLSg)

313
@272The most interesting thing is that the protests and looting have completely skipped NJ.

Probably going to NY to tear shit up there instead of here.

Still surprising though.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2020 10:42 PM (t3ssW)

314
263 NYT is reporting GWB will not support Trump and will endorse Biden
Posted by: Baseballisdead at June 06, 2020 10:35 PM (jjPW1)

Democrats who hate current Literally Hitler in agreement with previous Literally Hitler.

And this jackass and his wife were both out marching with the rioters.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 06, 2020 10:43 PM (nAiE/)

321
My family just asked where I want to go out to eat for my birthday, just to fuck with them I said Golden Corral. Of course we'll go to Texas Roadhouse for the big ribeye and suffer through the stupid wait staff doing there stupid dancing routine. I lived in Texas for 4 years and never saw that at a resturant.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 06, 2020 10:43 PM (iymtC)

322
294, you're right, but the the media glossed over the true meaning of what Trump meant--which was revealing that a good many women were gold diggers and starfuckers--to imply that he was confessing to physically assaulting women.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 10:43 PM (o1fzk)

323
The government arrested the cop....so why the riots? And the answer is because they want to disband ALL the police. Not get rid of a bad apple....
Posted by: 18-1 at June 06, 2020 10:41 PM (WdocV)

like I said, when your core message is a loser

your protests are BS

Posted by: REDACTED at June 06, 2020 10:43 PM (JgrP5)

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312 what Trump said was absolutely true: if you have enough money, there is a certain subset of women, many of which are more than a lttle attractive, who will let you do just about anything, as long as you keep them in the lifestyle that they yearn to live... men too.
you see that here in Lost Angels all the time.
people were "outraged" because he published what has been an open secret for decades.
Posted by: redc1c4 at June 06, 2020 10:35 PM (5RpHt)

I would make myself available for Kevin Costner. He's sexy.

Posted by: ALH at June 06, 2020 10:43 PM (Lhcx9)

325
Consider the source - New York Times will lie. Always.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2020 10:42 PM (ecW2Y)

"Our source was the New York Times."

--That guy in Dr Strangelove

Posted by: Vanya at June 06, 2020 10:43 PM (BAsqb)

326
''I think that youtube of the Colt and the Quarantine Kids has the whole secret of white privilege: a DAD.

Happy Caturday everyone!''

Yup. A fun dad too.

Posted by: Tuna at June 06, 2020 10:43 PM (gLRfa)

327The big problem with vigilantes is that they usually get the wrong man. Their criminal identification system is... inadequate.

329
IF they abolish all the police - now I think the police union will have a lot to say about that - but IF - then the thing to do would be send strike teams to the mayor's house and every city councilman's house the very first night. Don't have to hurt them, just shoot all their windows out to give them an idea. Then see who they call.

332
Democrats who hate current Literally Hitler in agreement with previous Literally Hitler.***

In a few short years we've gone from "Republicans start wars to make money for their crony business partners" to "Trump is terrible because all he does is fix the economy and won't start wars overseas"

Posted by: 18-1 at June 06, 2020 10:44 PM (WdocV)

333
Holy shit. Just got out of shower and hearing dozens of bangs. Cops trying to disperse crowd that's been there all day at precinct.(Seattle)

Posted by: Infidel Librarian at June 06, 2020 10:44 PM (GfwZO)

334
@314Wait until Trump trains his fire on Bush, it's going to be a doozy.

He'll start with pointless reckless wars and probably end with Scooter Libby.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2020 10:44 PM (t3ssW)

335
Well for God's sake, are we supposed to be shocked about Dubya?! The entire family was pretty vocal about not voting for Trump the last time.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 06, 2020 10:43 PM (6sh7A)

Oh, I'm not surprised at all. Just can't pass up and opportunity to toss a 'get bent' and that fucking fuck.

Posted by: Vanya at June 06, 2020 10:45 PM (BAsqb)

336Don't have to hurt them, just shoot all their windows out to give them an idea. Then see who they call.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 10:44 PM (V2Yro)

Ghostbusters!

duh ...

Posted by: Adriane the Music History Critic ... at June 06, 2020 10:45 PM (LPnfS)

339
> I think at least three times Rome lost a legion or multiple legions. David Drake took one of the losses as his springboard for aliens buying the captured legions to fight their wars out in space.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Speaking of, "Mamelukes", the long-awaited final Janissaries book from the late, great Jerry Pornelle is finally out. David Weber was given the task of finishing it.

I have it on my Kindle but haven't started it yet.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 06, 2020 10:45 PM (hKLpI)

340
''Well for God's sake, are we supposed to be shocked about Dubya?! The entire family was pretty vocal about not voting for Trump the last time.''

Much is explained.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 06, 2020 10:44 PM (yQpMk)

I think half of the NTers are just dumbasses who do not know what time of day it is.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 06, 2020 10:46 PM (A5zUN)

343
"NYT is reporting GWB will not support Trump and will endorse Biden."

Not shocked at all, but consider the source first.

I mean, they've been so spot on in their reportage of late.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 06, 2020 10:46 PM (Z4rgH)

344
But I've got to have a cocktail to make this happen, what say you Horde? Vodka, Gin, Rum or Whisky?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 06, 2020 10:24 PM (QW9VZ)

---yes.

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 06, 2020 10:47 PM (5RpHt)

345
The Parthians were always a pain in the ass for Rome. The list of assholes who tried to go over and knock down their apple cart is a long one.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 06, 2020 10:37 PM (A5zUN)

---------

The Cimbri were a ragtag bunch from Jutland who migrated south and defeated two Roman legions.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 06, 2020 10:47 PM (kVr0X)

346
No documentation seems to still exists as to what happened to Legios IX Hispana.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2020 10:46 PM (ecW2Y)

I've heard the theory that Hispana just kinda fell apart and went their separate ways at the end.

Posted by: Vanya at June 06, 2020 10:47 PM (BAsqb)

347
"Ex-Baltimore mayor, once convicted of embezzlement, now favorite to fill seat of mayor convicted of fraud"

Godspeed, WeirdDave, Godspeed.

Posted by: Miklosius Caroliniensis at June 06, 2020 10:47 PM (QzkSJ)

348The big problem with vigilantes is that they usually get the wrong man. Their criminal identification system is... inadequate.***

I disagree. In areas that have relied on vigilantism that is NOT the big problem. The issue is that it causes long cycles of escalating violence.

One Hatfield steal a cow from one McCoy. So that McCoy burns how a Hatfield house. That Hatfield goes and shots a McCoy and so on....

Then there is a Legion that went north in Scotland and literally fell off the rolls. No documentation seems to still exists as to what happened to Legios IX Hispana.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2020 10:46 PM (ecW2Y)

Posted by: Commissar J Comey -YOU are all in this together!- at June 06, 2020 10:48 PM (mMLSg)

352
If you consider that many of today's Antifa-supporting liberals also supported War Crimes Trials for Bush and Cheney over their "Wars for Oil!", shouldn't they now be huge Trump supporters?After all, not only does Trump have no desire for endless Mid east adventures, he's made the US energy self-reliant and we no longer NEED to go to war over oil.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 10:48 PM (o1fzk)

353
''Then there is a Legion that went north in Scotland and literally fell off the rolls. No documentation seems to still exists as to what happened to Legios IX Hispana.''

especially that little speach about oysters and snails.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020

*
*

And years later, when Star Trek: The Next Generation did the story about the Romulan general who defects to the Federation because he wants to avert war and make sure his children live to grow up, they cast James Sloyan -- an actor who looks much like Olivier did in Spartacus. I wonder if that was an an accident, or if the producers remembered Olivier in that film. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 06, 2020 10:49 PM (rpbg1)

357
346 No documentation seems to still exists as to what happened to Legios IX Hispana.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2020 10:46 PM (ecW2Y)

I've heard the theory that Hispana just kinda fell apart and went their separate ways at the end.
Posted by: Vanya at June 06, 2020 10:47 PM (BAsqb)

Sorry! Let me see if I can help... no redheads, but lots of women who looked like Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 06, 2020 10:51 PM (hKLpI)

373
I don't think there were many redheads in Scotland and Ireland until
later, after the Vikings came through and generously donated a lot of
DNA to the local population.

***

Yep. Also note there are a LOT of redheads and blondes in Russia - because Viking went there too...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 06, 2020 10:51 PM (WdocV)

374captured him and executed him by pouring molten gold down his throat.
Posted by: Vanya

Now there's an idea!

Posted by: Khal Drogo at June 06, 2020 10:52 PM (LPnfS)

375
Sorry! Let me see if I can help... no redheads, but lots of women who looked like Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 06, 2020 10:51 PM (hKLpI)

*ponders* I'll allow it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 06, 2020 10:52 PM (A5zUN)

376203 I haven't heard any suggestions for how they plan to replace the revenue from police tickets, such as parking and driving-related fines. I can only imagine what they think . . .
Posted by: Lizzy at June 06, 2020 10:26 PM (bDqIh)

----

California has shown the way. Put the taxpayers'
junk in a vise.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 06, 2020 10:52 PM (t5m5e)

377
Then there is a Legion that went north in Scotland and literally fell off the rolls. No documentation seems to still exists as to what happened to Legios IX Hispana.''

380
------------------------------------
Heh.
Now, if only the crowd demanded the same of Joe Biden when he attends whatever memorial he's supposed to attend!
Let's see the old fart get "defund the police" clearly on his record.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 06, 2020 10:15 PM (M/9m0)

It's almost a certainty that he will put his foot in his mouth.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 06, 2020 10:53 PM (u3z76)

381
> Yep. Also note there are a LOT of redheads and blondes in Russia - because Viking went there too...

They were giving that way, those Vikings.

And of course the reason many Russians have a vaguely Asian look to their eyes is because the Mongols were similarly giving.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 06, 2020 10:53 PM (hKLpI)

382
''Yep. Also note there are a LOT of redheads and blondes in Russia - because Viking went there too...''

Yup. Those high cheekbones too. Those Vikings were rascals.

Posted by: Tuna at June 06, 2020 10:53 PM (gLRfa)

383
I can see Bush not supporting Trump, but I don't see him openly supporting Biden either.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 06, 2020 10:53 PM (o1fzk)

384
They became King Arthur and his knights.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 06, 2020 10:52 PM (2DOZq)

Wasn't that the theme of the Clive Owen movie... with Horatio Hornblower and the stick woman?

Well, the only thing your creator seems to like more than incest and rape is paper-thin alterations of historical societies, 'Khal'.

Posted by: Vanya at June 06, 2020 10:54 PM (BAsqb)

389
So remember the last time there were "protests" (read: riots) over a wrongful death by cops? Say Baltimore in early 2015? How did that "change" end up working out?

Well homicides in Baltimore in 2014 and prior was below 300 per year every year. Ever since? 300+ per year. I hope all these cities may enjoy the "progress" they demand. It works seems to work so well.

Posted by: buzzion at June 06, 2020 10:54 PM (Z7lwY)

390
367 I remember when we put our dicks in the toaster
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 06, 2020 10:51 PM (oAY8z)

toaster oven , you mean !

Posted by: REDACTED at June 06, 2020 10:54 PM (JgrP5)

391
''I can see Bush not supporting Trump, but I don't see him openly supporting Biden either.''

I don't think there were many redheads in Scotland and Ireland until
later, after the Vikings came through and generously donated a lot of
DNA to the local population.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 06, 2020 10:49 PM (hKLpI)

Sort of a funny story, but most of the family is of Irish and Scottish ancestry, with lots and lots of redheads. Anyway, Morango Junior wants to to do one of those DNA kits. He gets it back and it's 98% British Isles. But the other 2% is Scandinavian.

Posted by: Mr. Morango at June 06, 2020 10:54 PM (2N7oZ)

394
Well, the only thing your creator seems to like more than incest and rape is paper-thin alterations of historical societies, 'Khal'.
Posted by: Vanya at June 06, 2020 10:54 PM (BAsqb)

Kidnapped Jewish gal in Heavy Metal, "but what I come home one day to find you screwing the toaster?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 06, 2020 10:55 PM (ecW2Y)

397
My family just asked where I want to go out to eat for my birthday, just to fuck with them I said Golden Corral. Of course we'll go to Texas Roadhouse for the big ribeye and suffer through the stupid wait staff doing there stupid dancing routine. I lived in Texas for 4 years and never saw that at a resturant.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 06, 2020 10:43 PM (iymtC)

I've been to a Texas Roadhouse in Texas, lots of times, and I never saw that either. I did have a waiter sing opera at a Macaroni Grill once, though.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 10:55 PM (OzQGF)

398
Anyway, Morango Junior wants to to do one of those DNA kits. He gets it back and it's 98% British Isles. But the other 2% is Scandinavian.
Posted by: Mr. Morango at June 06, 2020 10:54 PM (2N7oZ)

425
Shit, GWB refusing to endorse Trump or outright endorsing Biden will be a nice turd to drop in lefty punch bowls on social media

If the Bushes retake control of the GOP, then not only the family but the entire party is dead to me. Look at the #NeverTrump roster and it's all Bush shills who hate that actual conservatives took over a supposedly conservative party

426
'' I read somewhere that the genetics of redheads started someplace in northern Russia, where the Vikings found them.''

During the last Winter Olympics I noticed something about most all of the male Norwegian alpine skiers. They all had medium to light red hair.

Posted by: Tuna at June 06, 2020 11:01 PM (gLRfa)

427
An interesting evening with my best friends in Silicon Valley, a very successful couple, very intelligent. Somehow, before they found out I was a full-on Trump supporter, I asked, "what's the deal with Biden, are they seriously running him? This is like elder abuse" They had no idea what I meant. I mentioned my mother's Alzheimer's and how I'd never make her run for office. Again, they had no idea what I meant.

Sigh. We got off politics pretty quickly after that.

Posted by: t-bird at June 06, 2020 11:01 PM (B4CIY)

428
422
Minneapolis cuck-boi mayor Jacob Frey forced to do a Game-of-Thrones style "Walk of Shame" after going out to meet protesters:

430
I don't care how many times the left says the protests were peaceful

America cannot unsee the riots

Posted by: REDACTED at June 06, 2020 11:02 PM (JgrP5)

431
But I've got to have a cocktail to make this happen, what say you Horde? Vodka, Gin, Rum or Whisky?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 06, 2020 10:24 PM (QW9VZ)

Add a little cola, and that's a Long Island Iced Tea.

Or not. It's been years since I drank that stuff.

But carry on, my friend. I will defer to your experience.

And your outburst a week ago, laughing at America for being surprised that a generation of importing millions from shithole countries that have no idea of American history or ideals, and then surprised by the riots, was one of the finest things I have ever read here.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 06, 2020 11:02 PM (sy5kK)

432422 Minneapolis cuck-boi mayor Jacob Frey forced to do a Game-of-Thrones style "Walk of Shame" after going out to meet protesters:

https://tinyurl.com/frey-shame

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth
Crowd was heavily white..."

Dude, it's Minnesota.
Posted by: Case

Old: Minnesota Nice
New: Minnesota Stupid

Posted by: Sock Monkey...Made in the USA

Well back to the Shame Closet for him. Then he can watch those protestors pleasure his wife for hours.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 06, 2020 11:03 PM (HEosa)

433
''They had no idea what I meant. I mentioned my mother's Alzheimer's and how I'd never make her run for office. Again, they had no idea what I meant. ''

442437 I'm not ashamed I voted for either of the Bushies. The other choice was worse, both times. I liked them both then, and while Id never vote for another one, they are decent people. Flame away!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 06, 2020 11:04 PM (6sh7A)

I doubt anyone is going to flame you for voting for them. Now if you were going to still try and support W. for what he's doing today, that would be a different story.

Posted by: buzzion at June 06, 2020 11:05 PM (Z7lwY)

443
''Minneapolis cuck-boi mayor Jacob Frey forced to do a Game-of-Thrones style "Walk of Shame" after going out to meet protesters: ''

The shame walk from GoT is a favorite gif. of work-at-home team chat.

Posted by: Tuna at June 06, 2020 11:05 PM (gLRfa)

444
I'm not ashamed I voted for either of the Bushies. The other choice was worse, both times. I liked them both then, and while Id never vote for another one, they are decent people. Flame away!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 06, 2020 11:04 PM (6sh7A)

GOD DAMN YOU FOR NOT HAVING SIXTEEN YEARS OF FUTURE HINDSIGHT IN 2004 WHAT WERE YOU THINKING WOMAN

I once used a peremptory to strike an AA venireman because he came to court wearing a Malcolm X hat. The point was raised on appeal.. The appellate court said my strike was "squarely within the heartland" of permissible peremptory strikes.

Now that was 20 years ago. Who knows today?

Posted by: mnw at June 06, 2020 11:05 PM (Cssks)

446
JoeF.............I think what we hate is we supported them because they were president or candidates that we had no choice.....not one of them has shown any conservative qualities

447
Things very sporty in Seattle. Cops shoving protesters back down Pine away from precinct. Many explosions and many cops.

Posted by: Infidel Librarian at June 06, 2020 11:06 PM (GfwZO)

448
437 I'm not ashamed I voted for either of the Bushies. The other choice was worse, both times. I liked them both then, and while Id never vote for another one, they are decent people. Flame away!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 06, 2020 11:04 PM (6sh7A)

450
I thought today's "million person march" in Dc turned out to be a bust, with only a few thousand showing up?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I texted everybody with "FreeLattes@Starbucks"

Don't tell me they fell for that.

Posted by: Miklosian Krampusismus at June 06, 2020 11:06 PM (QzkSJ)

451
So, I have watched The Expendables 1 and 2 and now 3 starting, On the Black network Bounce. Every commercial break they are advertising a townhall with Marc Lamont Hill. Lamont you dummy. Elizabeth.. I'm coming.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 06, 2020 11:07 PM (iymtC)

452
That cocktail the top of the page was a picture of a drink named a Manhattan on the rocks (the drink with ice). Its name was changed in t he early 60's to the Lindsey cocktail, in reference to John Lindsey who many thought was truly incompetent. I understand it has now been re-attributed as a Deblasio or Coumo cocktail. Since I don't live ln the sour apple, I really don't know if the name change is appropriate.

Posted by: Ol' Country boy at June 06, 2020 11:07 PM (HwUVt)

453
I thought today's "million person march" in Dc turned out to be a bust, with only a few thousand showing up?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2020 11:04 PM (ePbMR)

Yes, there has been a noticeable lack of press gloating over the million rioter800,000 rioter600,000 rioter100,000 rioter oh never mind march.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 06, 2020 11:07 PM (nAiE/)

454
263 NYT is reporting GWB will not support Trump and will endorse Biden
Posted by: Baseballisdead at June 06, 2020 10:35 PM (jjPW1)

The UniParty is much stronger than the Republican Party.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 06, 2020 11:07 PM (sy5kK)

455
A Philly newspaper editor posted something about "Building matter too" due to all the buildings being burned and looted and was promptly fired for wrong think.

Unfortunately, it was an army of shitheels. Who are now proving it beyond a doubt.

Posted by: Mr. Morango at June 06, 2020 11:08 PM (2N7oZ)

458
The Bushes...the last vestige of America's WASP elite, which had things humming along for a while but lost its nerve after WWII and collapsed completely during the late 60s. They're a museum piece now.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at June 06, 2020 11:09 PM (ja/kn)

459451 So, I have watched The Expendables 1 and 2 and now 3 starting, On the Black network Bounce. Every commercial break they are advertising a townhall with Marc Lamont Hill. Lamont you dummy. Elizabeth.. I'm coming.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 06, 2020 11:07 PM (iymtC)

Good luck with the Expendables 3. Pretty sure that is the reason there isn't an Expendables 4.

Posted by: buzzion at June 06, 2020 11:09 PM (Z7lwY)

460
NYT is reporting GWB will not support Trump and will endorse Biden

I'm reporting that the NYT will endorse Trump.

Posted by: Miklos, at least as honest and accurate as Sources at June 06, 2020 11:09 PM (QzkSJ)

461
somebody tweeted that she would rather have Biden rape her child (acknowledging his creepiness) than have Trump reelected. she's not alone.

I don't enjoy anything about that fact, but I can't deny what we're up against either.

463
Whenever I see stories like Bush tonight, or I see the Lincoln Project idiots doing their thing, I'm always reminded of a random town hall in Wisconsin in 2008. A guy was screaming at McCain and Palin about how mad he was about government's growth and the loss of liberty (in similar tones to the early tea party). McCain didn't listen, he openly mocked the guy instead.

Those attitudes, that cocky elitism. That's how the GOP got Trump. And they still refuse to understand it.

I hate cops, but I feel sorry for them having to deal with having to arrest a guy like that, or that loosie salesmen. They are big guys and used to having their way.

The knee on the neck thing was wrong, but watching these clips of scum confronting cops in the riots is making me more and more sympathetic to the cops. That is a job I would not want to do.

Also,
I think this is the plan - to create an environment where cops are under siege, and criminals feel untouchable and so more and more you will have violence. If a guy refuses to get in the car, what are you supposed to do? If you roll up on a group of people who want to kill you and said as much in a protest the day before, you would be a fool to hesitate before shooting if you think you see a gun.

The left is doing their best to make all the problems worse. as always.

468somebody tweeted that she would rather have Biden rape her child
(acknowledging his creepiness) than have Trump reelected. she's not
alone.

___

God love ya. Really. Also, where do you live and how long is your child's hair?

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 06, 2020 11:11 PM (WdocV)

469
Unfortunately, it was an army of shitheels. Who are now proving it beyond a doubt.
Posted by: Mr. Morango at June 06, 2020 11:08 PM (2N7oZ)

Not arguing there, but in both cases, neither really tried to fight back when the left started to openly lie, relying instead on collegiality and trying to maintain what they saw as the way things were done. The problem is when only one side does it, you surrender the field.

The sad part is, the longer the GOPe strain have kicked the can down the road as far as trying to get along with the dems, the higher and higher the price tag has gotten to sort things out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 06, 2020 11:11 PM (A5zUN)

470
424: With PDT we see what is possible and feel contempt toward those who dared not deliver.

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 11:11 PM (ONvIw)

471458 The Bushes...the last vestige of America's WASP elite, which had things humming along for a while but lost its nerve after WWII and collapsed completely during the late 60s. They're a museum piece now.
Posted by: occam's brassiere

No, they were honestly confused. I guess CNN (or whoever) has been editing things heavily to make him seem viable.

It was amazing. I can how hard the awakening is going to be for many, many people. There were fully committed to the Plandemic, too, with "trust circles" of limited friends their kids could visit. I had never run into that before..

Posted by: t-bird at June 06, 2020 11:12 PM (B4CIY)

473
Was watching "Zoo'' on Animal Planet tonight and saw several commercials for a 2 night forum to be led by Oprah. It's to be called ''Where Do We Go From Here?'' or some such silliness. Long list of guests whose names I didn't recognize except the one listed first. Tank Abrams. Must see tv.

Posted by: Tuna at June 06, 2020 11:12 PM (gLRfa)

474
Good luck with the Expendables 3. Pretty sure that is the reason there isn't an Expendables 4.
Posted by: buzzion at June 06, 2020 11:09 PM (Z7lwY)

I liked 1. The second one was the one with the odd looking and sexually aggressive chinese woman, right?

476
Dang, I missed the garden thread. Was out in the garden a few years ago, and saw a mushroom that looked like a dogs dick. My wife touches it with her foot, then a few hours later gets real sick and I take her to the hospital.

As they are running tests, the doctor comes in and I say, I know what it is doc, she touched a poison mushroom with her shoe earlier. The doctor looks at me with pity, like I'm the dumbest fucker of the day, and says no, it's her gall bladder, not a poison mushroom.

486
There must be an action movie hero that wasn't in The Expendables, maybe The Rock?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 06, 2020 11:15 PM (iymtC)

487I say, I know what it is doc, she touched a poison mushroom with her shoe earlier. The doctor looks at me with pity, like I'm the dumbest fucker of the day, and says no, it's her gall bladder, not a poison mushroom.
Posted by: Menack

489
476 Dang, I missed the garden thread. Was out in the garden a few years ago, and saw a mushroom that looked like a dogs dick. My wife touches it with her foot, then a few hours later gets real sick and I take her to the hospital.

As they are running tests, the doctor comes in and I say, I know what it is doc, she touched a poison mushroom with her shoe earlier. The doctor looks at me with pity, like I'm the dumbest fucker of the day, and says no, it's her gall bladder, not a poison mushroom.
Posted by: Menack at June 06, 2020 11:13 PM (buTO7)

490
I watched a good hour and a half or more of Zoo:San Diego on Animal Planet this morning with my coffee, because I just couldn't do Riot/Protest/etc.

It was very enjoyable, really well done

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 06, 2020 11:17 PM (oAY8z)

491
I know we did not have a better choice at the time but dang they both sucked at the conservative.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 06, 2020 11:14 PM (nAiE/)

The problem is, after Reagan, we had absolutely no bull pen that I can remember that seem good in hindsight. Not to mention, you HAVE to give the nod to his VP, right? That he managed to squander the biggest inside straight in history, combined with Perot.

It just always feels like we were/are living in some sort of Greek Tragedy for the past 30 years.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 06, 2020 11:18 PM (A5zUN)

492
McCain didn't like him much but that was because of a nasty ad that got personal in the 2000 primaries

496
Nice try infidel librarian but I have been assured by our local news media and some progressives I have the misfortune to know that Seattle protests have been all peace love and joy. Everyone arm in arm in solidarity for global love. Even the police.

And this is me being sarcastic by the way. Just in case that was not clear.

Any other ideas? Part of me would love to see her mobbed by SJWs, part of me is still her mama and doesn't want to see her hurt. This is NOT something I figured I'd have to deal with before I had kids.

499
McCain like Nyu Wen, who used to rape him every Sunday morning in the Hilton...

Posted by: B J Cliton at June 06, 2020 11:19 PM (5gNjG)

500
NYT is reporting GWB will not support Trump and will endorse Biden
Posted by: Baseballisdead at June 06, 2020 10:35 PM (jjPW1)

Wow! That changes everything!

Said no one, ever.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 06, 2020 11:20 PM (ePbMR)

501
The young women posting "Defund The Police" on social media don't stop to think that one of the key functions of the police is specifically to protect them.

They think that the maintenance of social order is like the air - it's free, and no effort needs to be made to maintain it.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 06, 2020 11:20 PM (I2/tG)

502
I mean, let's not riot about the Fentenyl problem, or the black crime problem, or the fact that a man in his 40s is to stoned to function and needs to be arrested (and yet still has money for the drugs.)

The cop with the knee -- that is a problem, I get that. And I think the problem is much larger since I think many cops are assholes (I have vast experience here.) But the dude on drugs - that is a problem too, and it JUSTIFIES THE POLICE BEING ASSHOLES.

This rioting is like someone complaining that the fire department got too much water in their living room putting out the fire. You want to fix the water problem -- don't start fires in your living room. You want to solve the brutality problem - avoid breaking laws. Get a job, get sober, follow the rules and you will be amazed at how things change.

519
Any other ideas? Part of me would love to see her
mobbed by SJWs, part of me is still her mama and doesn't want to see her
hurt. This is NOT something I figured I'd have to deal with before I
had kids.

If your baby girl is brave enough to post that, good on her and support her if she needs it.

FWIW, that guy the gun is pointing at is obviously white even if he is shaded in.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 06, 2020 11:25 PM (nAiE/)

520
I used to hunt morels with my grandfather in his woods by his farm in west-central Ohio. There was a mushroom called (I think) a wood mushroom which he always said "looks like a dog pecker" that is very much edible, but not nearly as tasty as the prized morel.

I believe it was the establishment GOP of the day forcing the Washington swamper Bush the Elder on Reagan to enable him to get GOP support (read: Campaign cash). Reagan was Trump before Trump in terms of the love the GOPe felt towards him. Trump got around that little 'cash support' difficulty buy using his own money, as well as the small amounts donated by Deplorables.

Still trying to figure out what's in the glass in that top picture... good grief.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 06, 2020 11:28 PM (L2ZTs)

528
I used to hunt morels with my grandfather in his woods by his farm in west-central Ohio.

First year I haven't gone for morels in a long time. Old railroad line turned bike path usually does me pretty good.

Posted by: dartist at June 06, 2020 11:28 PM (K22Va)

529While I can't figure out what we're paying the cops for at this point, without them there's vigilantism, and the trust fund kids wouldn't like that much

Without public order, young women will have to join a gang for protection, or have society shift to a clan-based organization that protects its members.

They wouldn't like that much.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 06, 2020 11:28 PM (I2/tG)

530 I was checking out my electric fence this evening and discovered where the deer had probed that perimeter. They had left tracks walking along the backside of the fence linen and then tried to nose in one spot between posts.

It stopped them, knock on wood. There was a track right up under the lower wire. One of them likely got a little pop right on the nose.

537
501 The young women posting "Defund The Police" on social media don't stop to think that one of the key functions of the police is specifically to protect them.

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They will all march to the polls to vote for Digital Penetration Joe, showing how little they actually care about the principles that were most important to them one year ago during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.

539
538 501 The young women posting "Defund The Police" on social media don't stop to think that one of the key functions of the police is specifically to protect them.

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They will all march to the polls to vote for Digital Penetration Joe, showing how little they actually care about the principles that were most important to them one year ago during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.

540"I don't care how many times the left says the protests were peaceful

Posted by: REDACTED"

Calling these protests peacefeul, with all their vile language and threatening signs, is like saying the Japans flotilla headed toward Pearl Harbor or Germany massing troops along the Polish border was peaceful. Until they weren't.

In other idiotic news some Bollywood actress , who has been supportive of this insanity, is being attacked for promoting skin whitening cream because obviously racist. No this was not from The Onion.

546
K... maybe I am missing something. The tweet in question looks to me like a statement against SJW bake the damn cake/don't you dare misgender me movement.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 06, 2020 11:34 PM (nAiE/)

I kinda saw it as supporting those things. Perhaps I am excessively cynical.

Posted by: Vanya at June 06, 2020 11:35 PM (BAsqb)

547
Well, I guess I against you, homies. Fuck off and die.
The Hordemind is amazing. Posted what I was thinking before I even read the original post.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

Sad thing is that for the anarchists/communists/soy boys, this is another win-win. They ruin everything. If I watch the NFL, I have their bs rammed down my throat, with their kneeling, and resistance to the singing of the national anthem, etc. If I do not watch, they get to tear down a bit of an American institution, the NFL. Which I used to love. All leading somewhere to a future like the streets of NYC this past week.

549
I'm seeing a lot of people pissed over that D-Day photo that says "Largest Antifa gathering in history" and to me it seems factually correct, the large group of Antifa gathered in the hilltops and the brave US infantrymen stormed the beaches to eradicate them.

552
publius - hate to offer unsought advice, but guard towers with MG-42s and claymores will make that perimeter a lot more secure.

DB - if you're interested, on UToob there's a series of interviews with Band of Brothers actors by Ross Owen, I think mostly done almost 10 years ago. Some are fairly interesting - to me, entirely for the interactions with the veterans some of them had, how it affected their roles, even their lines.

Known and traditional treatments for this condition exist, but have been declared Haram by such politicians, athletes, celebrities and other such societal shamans as who shamelessly shame the same wine moms to yield the knee and squeal with glee.

If you live in any portion of Real America, GeorgeFloyd19 syndrome can be effectively treated with strong Police responses, hickory shampoos, tears (of joy) gas, pepper spray and paintballs.

Should you find yourself bereft of the immediate available assistance as described above, it is recommended to treat the malady with a compound of copper, lead and a suitable propellent, administered at sufficient velocity as to treat the condition with a single dose.

Warning: Dispersal of high-volume accurate fire for more than four hours may indicate a problem greater than can be treated with self-administration.

Should you encounter this condition, it is advised that you summon your Fire Team Backup at once, for further assistance.

563
We should do a go fund me for Insom to visit Nurse, lives may hang in the balance.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 06, 2020 11:39 PM (iymtC)

564
I have a date every Friday night.
Unfortunately it's usually with a pizza...

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 06, 2020 11:39 PM (L2ZTs)

565
Insom, I woulda sworn you posted a few weeks back, you had a date coming up. But I could have misunderstood something or got you mixed up with someone else. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at June 06, 2020 11:38 PM (L2ZTs)

566
I have been accused of excessive looking on the sunny side before but if an attack on the tweet from SJWs is expected would it make more sense that it was anti those things?
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 06, 2020 11:37 PM (nAiE/)

I made an assumption based on the poster describing her daughter as an idiot. I may very well be incorrect in my thought, and if so I take back my fairly venomous response.

Posted by: Vanya at June 06, 2020 11:40 PM (BAsqb)

567
Doesn't the girl's tweet say "they/them" like that's her pronoun she wants to be referred as?

I'm not so great with the Twatter. I'm fine with poking fun at the passive/aggressive totalitarians, if that's what she's doing

By politicizing everything - and, and this is key - politicizing everything *on behalf of racism, and historical ignorance, and entitlement, and a raft of other pathologies * is an especially vile bit of cultural vandalism.

From the important things - like institutions of government, the very laws themselves, what used to be known as institutions of higher learning - to the fun things, like sports and movies and theater etc, their vandalism has significantly degraded our society.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 11:41 PM (El6T/)

571
Worst thing about the Bush endorsemen is that it will fuel another load of insufferable nonsense from the Q-anon cadre.

573
Worst thing about the Bush endorsemen is that it will fuel another load of insufferable nonsense from the Q-anon cadre.
Posted by: Orson at June 06, 2020 11:41 PM (/1KEi)

Has Q been right about anything yet? At all?

Posted by: Vanya at June 06, 2020 11:42 PM (BAsqb)

574
Hey! Job is going full throttle and overall quite well. I have no idea where you got the idea I went on a date.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 11:36 PM (NWiLs)
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Well, once you sell out for the filthy lucre, what's next but wine, women and song?

576
I don't know how helpful it is or if anyone cares, but I'm always trying to alert people around here to the specific mindgames / mindfucking that is going on all around us. My diamond clarity vision of the vile Left's gutter tactics and demoralization games helps me tolerate their bullshit and even their existence. Consider:

In 2016, election coverage was 24/7 from January through November. Do you remember? I do. They never shut up about the polls, the polls, the quotes, the actions, the past, the future, the responses, the disavowing, the endorsements, the election, the primaries, the polls, the chances of brokered conventions, the polls, the polls, the polls...

But now? It's like it's not even happening. What election? I mean, they mention it, but this is not like any "election" season I've ever seen, especially when it's an election they've been crying out for for 41 straight months. What happened to the wall to wall ELECTION coverage?

The gaslighters are actually busy trying to pretend that *there is no election* because they don't want people to realize that everything they have been seeing and hearing is in fact targeted election propaganda.

In a way I think they don't want to he caught with millions of hours all their bullshit predictions and polling when Trump wins again. But I think it's more that they know it didn't work last time so they're going with a different angle - bad news and CHAOS all the time.

Posted by: ... at June 06, 2020 11:43 PM (gZ6M8)

577
575 Hey! Job is going full throttle and overall quite well. I have no idea where you got the idea I went on a date.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 11:36 PM (NWiLs)
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Well, once you sell out for the filthy lucre, what's next but wine, women and song?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at June 06, 2020 11:42 PM (WEBkv)

578
DB - if you're interested, on UToob there's a series of interviews with
Band of Brothers actors by Ross Owen, I think mostly done almost 10
years ago. Some are fairly interesting - to me, entirely for the
interactions with the veterans some of them had, how it affected their
roles, even their lines.

I saw some of that after binge watching the series. Tons of respect for the vets and situations they portrayed. No doubt a big part of why it was so good.

Posted by: dartist at June 06, 2020 11:43 PM (K22Va)

579
Most of you probably missed it, but while movies were going upstairs I filled out the chess thread with some low-lights of the day -

*both the Churchill (D-Day! perfect) and Abe Lincoln statues in London were defaced today

* a female British cop was seriously injured when "protesters" intentionally spooked her horse, and she ran head-on into an overhead fixture

589
A twitter commenter in Seattle said the "protests" there have basically become unofficial festivals, complete with DJs playing music, cookouts, kid's games, etc. Basically, it's the only way you can get out of the house and mingle in a crowd without the Karens calling the cops to issue you a citation.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 06, 2020 11:45 PM (HabA/)

590
dartist I've only listened to a few but the best was the guy who played Carwood Lipton (I rarely know and never remember actors' names) - about how he spoke with Lipton fairly often, and specifically how it changed the way he played the scene with the green West Pointer Lt. Jones. Turned out Lipton like him, thought he did well in the cross-river prisoner snatch raid, and so veered a bit from the script to reflect the historical truth.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 11:46 PM (El6T/)

591
Renting is way cheaper. I'm still paying for the first one and will be for several more years.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 11:45 PM (NWiLs)

596
590 A twitter commenter in Seattle said the "protests" there have basically become unofficial festivals, complete with DJs playing music, cookouts, kid's games, etc. Basically, it's the only way you can get out of the house and mingle in a crowd without the Karens calling the cops to issue you a citation.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 06, 2020 11:45 PM (HabA/)

You know... that is brilliant.

Nurse, you should organize a protest at your house. Have beer, firearms and American flags.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 06, 2020 11:47 PM (A5zUN)

597I'm seeing a lot of people pissed over that D-Day
photo that says "Largest Antifa gathering in history" and to me it seems
factually correct, the large group of Antifa gathered in the hilltops
and the brave US infantrymen stormed the beaches to eradicate them.Posted by: Rbastid at June 06, 2020 11:36 PM (uTEdS)

Actually the largest Antifa gathering was done in Barcelona and the outcome was that the Communists arrested and executed all the Anarchists.The ones they didn't get around to executing, the Nationalists took from the prisons and shot them instead when they took each Republican city and town.

600
Insom - the old but real adage among rich guys (I've heard it used in earnest by a rich guy who's followed it, more or less) - "if it flies, floats, or f**ks, rent it".

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 11:48 PM (El6T/)

601
Yeesh, you mean I have to break out the Boone's Farm special reserve?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at June 06, 2020 11:47 PM (WEBkv)

Aged 6 months!
-Boone's Farm Spokesweasel

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 06, 2020 11:48 PM (A5zUN)

602I've read the sodomites are not pleased that "their month" has been co-opted by the race riot... And Wuhan Plague...
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto

Perhaps they will demand the month of July and/or August.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 06, 2020 11:49 PM (aKsyK)

603
578 575 Hey! Job is going full throttle and overall quite well. I have no idea where you got the idea I went on a date.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 06, 2020 11:36 PM (NWiLs)
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Well, once you sell out for the filthy lucre, what's next but wine, women and song?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at June 06, 2020 11:42 PM (WEBkv)

607
I'm glad I'm not on FB. I'm told that my younger relatives are virtue-signaling like mad about how they marched in some stupid march and they're all so concerned about systemic racism, etc. The one nephew that's not saying anything stupid on FB is the one who is a firefighter - because he was pretty damn nervous the peaceful marchers would torch things and attack him if he showed up to put the fires out. But the other ones - meh.

The millennials really are a brainwashed bunch.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 06, 2020 11:50 PM (HabA/)

608
I've read the sodomites are not pleased that "their month" has been co-opted by the race riot... And Wuhan Plague...

611
Donna of the &&&&&, that phenomenon was on display elsewhere. It's clear many of the people at these things are the same ones who would've been at every protest since the 60s (I mean the younger, current version of the exact same kind of person), and it's a lifestyle statement as much as anything.

DC's was described as having a "street fair vibe". Food, music, dancing.

Sadly no fuel-air explosives to complete the picture, and make the world a better place.

as they go to join the rioters. That NFL boycott went from "don't care actually" to "f*ck those assholes"
Posted by: 18-1

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Has everyone seen those zillionaire hoods in the NFL in that "I am George Floyd" video? (I haven't been able to hang around much this week and maybe it -- and Goodell's response -- been discused to death.)

619
And dartist one interesting thing in, I think, each of the interviews I've listened to - every actor said their lives were changed by this gig, their outlook, and all of them wondered whether they'd ever have another role that did that in their lives.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 11:53 PM (El6T/)

620
Well, anyway, just dropped in to say hi and saw "insom had a date" was trending, which looked like fun.

1) revolutionaries, who know exactly what they are doing, and who intend to replace the police with themselves.

2) idiots, who have no idea what is required to maintain public order. I read a comment on Portland Reddit where someone said that we should send out social workers instead of cops to respond to 911 calls, and if there is a problem, the social workers would be trained to "non-violently subdue" the person causing the problem.

Santa Cruz County Sheriff Jim Hart says a deputy was killed while investigating a report of a "suspicious van" full of guns and explosives. As deputies investigated, they were ambushed with gunfire and "multiple improvised explosives". Another officer was hospitalized.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 06, 2020 11:56 PM (ZxG8D)

631Nurse, you should organize a protest at your house. Have beer, firearms and American flags.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 06, 2020 11:47 PM (A5zUN)

Some racetrack in NC, I think, held a 'protest night' of racing. Lol. The gubmint is 'evaluating' the situation.

"Knock back a 12er, eat a few brats in honor of Fighting The System". I think a group of Hasadic Jewish kids pulled the same trick in NYC.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 06, 2020 11:57 PM (Z4rgH)

632
I know a guy who is very conservative. Grew up on a farm, went to a military academy, a couple of tours in Iraq, religious, textbook "conservative".

Anyway, recently he got promoted to a high up executive position in a Fortune 100 company. On Facebook and LinkedIn he's 100% pro-Maoists. I doubt he means any of it, but given his position, he has no choice but to bend the knee if he wats to keep that job.
No different than communist China or the USSR.

Posted by: Not Amused at June 06, 2020 11:57 PM (AJ2LA)

633
Am I missing something? I thought Jigaboos were fans of one of the rock bands from a while back? Sort of made their faces up like clowns a little?Have they done something bad?

By politicizing everything - and, and this is key - politicizing everything *on behalf of racism, and historical ignorance, and entitlement, and a raft of other pathologies * is an especially vile bit of cultural vandalism.

From the important things - like institutions of government, the very laws themselves, what used to be known as institutions of higher learning - to the fun things, like sports and movies and theater etc, their vandalism has significantly degraded our society.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 11:41 PM (El6T/)

Bit try to push back and you are the 'politicizing everything'.
To the sheep you are. It is just "the way things should be."
The progtards, they are playing taqaya.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at June 06, 2020 11:58 PM (1g7ch)

635
Cleanup in aisle 618. Some pitiful Soros troll trying to make us look bad....

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 06, 2020 11:58 PM (HabA/)

636
635 Am I missing something? I thought Jigaboos were fans of one of the rock bands from a while back? Sort of made their faces up like clowns a little?
Have they done something bad?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 06, 2020 11:57 PM (6sh7A)

638
Sort of made their faces up like clowns a little?
Have they done something bad?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 06, 2020 11:57 PM (6sh7A)
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We should bring back the jugaloos for a 20 year reunion.

Posted by: Menack at June 06, 2020 11:59 PM (buTO7)

639
Watching old Star Trek episodes. Kirk just split his pants and Spock just beat up a woman. Season 3 was lit.

Posted by: Mr. Morango at June 06, 2020 11:59 PM (2N7oZ)

640
Today was out in an area I rarely go to and not at all for several months. Not shocked by the businesses with boarded up windows (preventative, not damaged).

But astounded by the mask-wearing. Beautiful day. Every person I'm talking about has much more risk of death from an auto accident than WuFlu (mostly 40s and under). And outside.

FFS. A scientifically illiterate society.

Oh, to add to the humor, the WHO is now pretending to believe that "science" now indicates the value of mask-wearing.

So that people who are at essentially near-zero risk of serious problems - who do literally nothing year in/year out about influenza - should wear masks.

642
591
dartist I've only listened to a few but the best was the guy who played
Carwood Lipton (I rarely know and never remember actors' names) - about
how he spoke with Lipton fairly often, and specifically how it changed
the way he played the scene with the green West Pointer Lt. Jones.
Turned out Lipton like him, thought he did well in the cross-river
prisoner snatch raid, and so veered a bit from the script to reflect the
historical truth.

How long have we been in Afghanistan or were in Vietnam? Politics.What those guys did in a little over a year is something that should be taught in schools and celebrated in this bullshit media a little more. I may binge it again to pick up on stuff I missed the first time. Love those old vets.

Posted by: dartist at June 06, 2020 11:59 PM (K22Va)

643
635 Am I missing something? I thought Jigaboos were fans of one of the rock bands from a while back? Sort of made their faces up like clowns a little?
Have they done something bad?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 06, 2020 11:57 PM (6sh7A

648
Am I missing something? I thought Jigaboos were fans of one of the rock bands from a while back? Sort of made their faces up like clowns a little?
Have they done something bad?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 06, 2020 11:57 PM (6sh7A)

The Leftists are pointing to these protests as proof that the yutes are all woke. Many are sadly, including a few young dopes in my own family, but the Dems always pin their hopes on the Youth vote - and a shit ton of those "protesters" won't bother to vote in November.

Older people and suburbanites will.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 07, 2020 12:02 AM (HabA/)

655They are trying to make wearing hawaian shirt a white supremasist thing

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 07, 2020 12:01 AM (iymtC)

Shit.

Posted by: Magnum at June 07, 2020 12:02 AM (2N7oZ)

656Am I missing something? I thought Jigaboos were fans of one of the rock bands from a while back? Sort of made their faces up like clowns a little?
Have they done something bad?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 06, 2020 11:57 PM (6sh7A)

Jugalos, Tammy. Spelling Matters. The other is a racial slur.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 07, 2020 12:03 AM (Z4rgH)

657
ARC, part of me is dying to see that tried out ("social worker" heading to a police matter). A big part. Just a few times. But with video.

659
653 Where I am nobody and I mean fucking nobody is wearing masks. Even employees at grocery stores and Walmart stopped.
Posted by: Not Amused at June 07, 2020 12:01 AM (AJ2LA)

I have not been to the grocery store yet this week.

The weird thing here in Kentucky was that compliance was virtually non existent for the middle six weeks of the thing. The first weekend, it was about 50%, then went down to around 30 for six weeks or so, then up to around 80%.

667
The weird thing here in Kentucky was that compliance was virtually non existent for the middle six weeks of the thing. The first weekend, it was about 50%, then went down to around 30 for six weeks or so, then up to around 80%.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 07, 2020 12:04 AM (A5zUN)

___

TBH, I don't even know what the rules are. Whatever they are, everyone is saying LOLGF rules.

Posted by: Not Amused at June 07, 2020 12:06 AM (AJ2LA)

668
One of the things the police-haters have done very successfully is discourage people from joining big-city police departments.

Twenty years ago, you needed to graduate from a four-year college to be a Portland cop. Now, you need just a high school diploma or a GED, and Portland still can't recruit enough cops.

Oh, and it is disqualifying if "Personal/Professional life shows a lack of experience with people from racial backgrounds different from your own."

So, if you are from a small town in Oregon, don't bother applying to be a Portland cop.

672
Am I missing something? I thought Jigaboos were fans of one of the rock bands from a while back? Sort of made their faces up like clowns a little?
Have they done something bad?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 06, 2020 11:57 PM (6sh7A)

You're thinking of Juggalos, Ma.

Posted by: Robert at June 07, 2020 12:07 AM (xW4Id)

673
Oh, to add to the humor, the WHO is now pretending to believe that "science" now indicates the value of mask-wearing.
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Here's a hoot. The local Walgreen's has printed-up signs in the window saying that, "Customers Must Wear Face Protection". Face protection? At last, I can break out the colander.

Did not include Magnolia Properties , Chip and Joanna Gaines' company, who knelt before their BLM/Antifa masters and delivered a rhetorical boot-licking in a deeply disturbing and disgusting email today.

Likewise here in the foothills, NE of London.
Today, local Shell that had been meticulous about employees wearing masks, now none. Saw 3 people masked, and this place is busy.

Posted by: Gooshy at June 07, 2020 12:08 AM (9tU8U)

682
Saw a story about a Texas airport where they removed a statue of a......Texas Ranger.

None of this is going to end well.
Posted by: Gooshy at June 06, 2020 11:44 PM (9tU8U)

Love Field, in Dallas. We talked about it some on last night's OnT. I've seen that stature many, many times, it's a good one.

It's based on one particular Ranger who had a very prominent career in the 30's, 40's, and 50's. Some leftist is writing a book and he says that during a School Desegregation movement in the 50's, he was at some demonstration and didn't do anything during a demonstration against it. How weak is that???

nevertheless, the Democrats who run City of Dallas have instantly decided that his name and his statue must instantly be stricken from all memory for that "crime".

693
Here's a hoot. The local Walgreen's has printed-up signs in the window saying that, "Customers Must Wear Face Protection". Face protection? At last, I can break out the colander.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 07, 2020 12:07 AM (vOGqy)

"Mr. Humungus, your order is ready for pickup at the pharmacy."

Posted by: Vanya at June 07, 2020 12:11 AM (BAsqb)

694Love Field, in Dallas. We talked about it some on last night's OnT. I've seen that stature many, many times, it's a good one.

It's based on one particular Ranger who had a very prominent career in the 30's, 40's, and 50's. Some leftist is writing a book and he says that during a School Desegregation movement in the 50's, he was at some demonstration and didn't do anything during a demonstration against it. How weak is that???

nevertheless, the Democrats who run City of Dallas have instantly decided that his name and his statue must instantly be stricken from all memory for that "crime".
Posted by: Tom Servo

The citizens should put up a statue of Bass Reaves and dare the city-fascists to tear it down.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 07, 2020 12:11 AM (ZxG8D)

695
I've been getting a lot of mileage out of my steam-punk mask fashioned of pliable Corellian leather with the grommets and spikes and buckles and faux-blood spatter and shit...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at June 07, 2020 12:11 AM (7WaWV)

696
I saw residents on the South Side of Chicago are worried because all the grocery stores were looted and they don't know where they're going to shop now.

Ask your mayor and the Dems you always vote for.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 07, 2020 12:12 AM (HabA/)

697ARC, part of me is dying to see that tried out ("social worker" heading to a police matter). A big part. Just a few times. But with video.

The experiment fails, and then they bring in the People's Police.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 07, 2020 12:12 AM (I2/tG)

698
So let me get this straight: We have cities that are going to take money from the police department, give it to BLM and similar organizations, then demand money from the feds to rebuild after the Chinese Death Cooties and riots?

Umm, no.

If you have money to piss away to BLM, you don't need a federal bail out.

We wait for the new Alcalde.
Posted by: Sgt. Nicolas Garcia at June 07, 2020 12:08 AM (QzkSJ)

Palabra!

Posted by: Zorro at June 07, 2020 12:12 AM (NgKpN)

701
697 ARC, part of me is dying to see that tried out ("social worker" heading to a police matter). A big part. Just a few times. But with video.

The experiment fails, and then they bring in the People's Police.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 07, 2020 12:12 AM (I2/tG)

Sorry, but any of us who have ever had to deal with Child protective services, already knows how that story goes.

Posted by: Zorro at June 07, 2020 12:13 AM (NgKpN)

702
Nice try infidel librarian but I have been assured by our local news media and some progressives I have the misfortune to know that Seattle protests have been all peace love and joy. Everyone arm in arm in solidarity for global love. Even the police.

And this is me being sarcastic by the way. Just in case that was not clear.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 06, 2020 11:19 PM (UNyae)
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And in the next exciting episode of the Left Eating its Own, Seattle City Council Communist Kshama Sawant has called for Seattle City Mayor Jennie Durkan to resign because of generations of racism or something. If she doesn't resign, Shwarma Savant will introduce articles to impeach.

706
The idiot commentators saying that social workers can replace cops just show that that increasingly Leftists grow up in a bubble where they don't know anyone who served in the military, anyone who has been a cop, or indeed anyone who has worked at a blue-collar job, so there is no check on the stupid things that they believe.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 07, 2020 12:15 AM (I2/tG)

707
Here's a hoot. The local Walgreen's has printed-up signs in the window saying that, "Customers Must Wear Face Protection".

"or else"

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No shirt
No shoes
No mask
No pants
No service

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 07, 2020 12:15 AM (kVr0X)

708
The citizens should put up a statue of Bass Reaves and dare the city-fascists to tear it down.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 07, 2020 12:11 AM (ZxG8D)

the "citizens" ARE the problem. All the anglos have moved out to the suburbs surrounding Dallas. Best Indicator - Dallas Public School system (when it gets around to re-opening) is 97% Black and Hispanic. The only big racial conflict in Dallas proper is that a lot of the black officials are getting upset that the hispanics are now so numerous that they're starting to be able to put their own people in the comfy grifter's jobs.

Yeah. And they must have had to slaughter, like, tonnes, of Corells to make that mask!!

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at June 07, 2020 12:23 AM (7WaWV)

733
Trump's a big sports fan and football fan and yet I think he'll be confronted when the NFL starts with an unprecedented amount of stupid racist "protest" crap. He very softly shoved Drew Brees for his stupid and pathetic performance this week. I think he'll be getting much cruder provocations come the fall.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 07, 2020 12:29 AM (hKLpI)

748
Want to see some crazy post-apocalyptic John Carpenter shit? Check out this pre-fab "7-11" window decal. Huge sign before you walk in. This is a legit pic, I saw this thing myself. I promise it's worth the click.

https://tinyurl.com/yddcwa4c

Posted by: ... at June 07, 2020 12:29 AM (gZ6M8)

749
God knows so many of the people we thought were on *our* side, turned out not to be.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 07, 2020 12:24 AM (L2ZTs)

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This is why we have code words.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 07, 2020 12:25 AM (kVr0X)

CX

Posted by: Methos at June 07, 2020 12:29 AM (kOpft)

750
651 Where I am nobody and I mean fucking nobody is wearing masks. Even employees at grocery stores and Walmart stopped.
Posted by: Not Amused at June 07, 2020 12:01 AM (AJ2LA)
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Our Beloved Fuhrer Northam, has decreed that everyone must wear a mask ---(or I suppose he'd accept a KKK hood)--- in all indoor public places. So we have no choice.

Well, not much choice. The chain stores around here (SW VA) are enforcing the royal edict but the little ones not so much.
Eh. I'll pay a premium to buy milk, etc., at the rural convenience store.

Lotsa Knobs around here. Knob Creek, Kirby Knob, etc. Oh, and String Bean (Hee Haw) was born here.
We also got that nursing home responsible for all those Corona cases you might have seen in the news. Yay.

Posted by: Gooshy at June 07, 2020 12:30 AM (9tU8U)

754
..., it looks like the original cover of the book "The Shining."
(It featured a drawing of a blank face.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 07, 2020 12:31 AM (L2ZTs)

755
God knows so many of the people we thought were on *our* side, turned out not to be.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 07, 2020 12:24 AM (L2ZTs)

Who do I trust. Me!!! Say goodnight to the bad guy. Last bad guy you ever gonna see look like this.

A 1977 where Star Wars was directed by Woody Allen, and Annie Hall was directed by George Lucas.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 07, 2020 12:32 AM (L2ZTs)

762
Trump hates the NFL. NFL embarrassed him with the USFL. Trump pulled off a hostile takeover of USFL via his ownership of the NJ Generals. Trump's goal was to get the Generals into the NFL. NY area could support another team, but Trump crashed the USFL in an attempt to highlight the Generals, so he could be an NFL owner. But NFL didn't let him in. He hates the NFL.

771
A 1977 where Star Wars was directed by Woody Allen, and Annie Hall was directed by George Lucas.
Posted by: qdpsteve at June 07, 2020 12:32 AM (L2ZTs)

*Alderaan explodes*

Princess Leia: I'll have what she's having.

Posted by: Vanya at June 07, 2020 12:34 AM (BAsqb)

772
"Did not include Magnolia Properties , Chip and Joanna Gaines' company,
who knelt before their BLM/Antifa masters and delivered a rhetorical
boot-licking in a deeply disturbing and disgusting email today."

777
Good one, "Squeakhole". But nah, I'm sure they're kneeling because ..... wait, WTF is the kneeling even supposed to be about, anyway? Just like the "protests". Except for the hateful racist elements, it's about nothing, about the protesters' incredibly vacuous and ignorant moral narcissism.

781
Chicago's Second City Cop blog does not like a picture showing couple of Chicago cops kneeling, to put it mildly:

Do you have any fucking idea what you are symbolizing when The Law kneels before anyone?
You are saying that The Law will kneel to the mob.
You have also, by ignorance or design, endangered every single Law Enforcement Officer from that point forward into history. You are not worthy of the badge, star or shield of any Department. You are scum who cannot be counted upon to back your co-workers in the most desperate of circumstances because you brought personal feelings into what is supposed to be a dispassionate application of what all citizens live under.

But what do you really think, SSC?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 07, 2020 12:36 AM (I2/tG)

782
Drew Brees turned on Trump to appease the mob. He thinks you can appease the mob! Dink.

Posted by: ... at June 07, 2020 12:36 AM (gZ6M8)

783
738 God knows so many of the people we thought were on *our* side, turned out not to be.
Posted by: qdpsteve at June 07, 2020 12:24 AM (L2ZTs)

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This is why we have code words.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 07, 2020 12:25 AM (kVr0X)

Just once, I would really enjoy Trump use the term "morons" in a speech, like he uses "deplorables".

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 07, 2020 12:37 AM (sy5kK)

784
Vanya, LOL.
Imagine what Lucas could have done with Tony Richardson's character...

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 07, 2020 12:38 AM (L2ZTs)

785
706 The idiot commentators saying that social workers can replace cops just show that that increasingly Leftists grow up in a bubble where they don't know anyone who served in the military, anyone who has been a cop, or indeed anyone who has worked at a blue-collar job, so there is no check on the stupid things that they believe.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 07, 2020 12:15 AM (I2/tG)

I was talking about this with my sister earlier this evening. You can see it in my family. My father was born poor to immigrant parents and grew up during the Depression. His father died when he was 19 and he worked 2 jobs to support his mom and younger sisters - and then came the war.

His kids didn't have it nearly so tough - but still, we grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood. We were 6 people in a small 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom house, our vacations were trips to Northern Wisconsin and we had 1 family car. We all had to get jobs when we were 16 and save up to buy beater cars. And we got spanked when we got out of line.

My nieces and nephews were never spanked, went to California and Arizona and stayed in hotels when they went on family vacays, had cars given to them as presents, and teachers that worried about their "self esteem."

As a result, although I love them, I have to admit they are entitled ingrates (with 1 exception). And yeah, their parents are responsible. For Chrissake, my brother is still paying the bills for his shiftless Bernie Bro son. The guy is 35 years old, smokes a lot of weed, eats out at a lot of good restaurants, and still relies on daddy and mommy. But he's all for Social Justice.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 07, 2020 12:38 AM (HabA/)

786 Come to Sugar Tit, SC. It's the home of the world famous Sugar Tit Speedway -- dirt track racing. This is high tone redneck fair shore 'nuff.

I want to take Miley there one of these days and let her see rednecks in their full natural element. Drunk, and whooping and hollering. It's a sight to see.

A tractor pull will have a similar ambience, even more so in some ways.

Guess what I meant is that Trump appears to be a sports fan, I think his hackles being raised by the idiotic kneeling stuff was genuine. The NFL did its idiotic weaselly dishonest pandering thing to slide by with that, but I don't think that's gonna happen this time.

Well, we *know* it isn't happening. Goodell, that human garbage, slandered the country with his ignorant idiotic statement the other day, and the Broncos' aggressive arrogant racism will obviously be the norm now.

Just wondering how Trump will react to this. He rarely fails to say something about major social or cultural events.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 07, 2020 12:40 AM (El6T/)

794
So, I'm putting on the Robert Zimmerman documentry on netflix as I go to sleep, Bob Dylan if you didn't know. It's 3 and a half hours. So I should sleep well.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 07, 2020 12:40 AM (iymtC)

795
I did kind of take a chance on the Neighborhood message boards, and got more laughs than I thought I would. There was one long thread from one woman who was terrified because another woman from the neighborhood had showed up at her door, screaming and pounding on the door because the first woman's dogs had been barking too much. (she claimed they weren't her dogs, but the actual dispute is a rabbit hole not worth going down) She asked for advice as to what to do.

So i told her "What really works in these situations is that when this happens, you need to go answer the door completely nude, holding a big butcher knife. It really completes the effect if you wear a hockey mask as well, that really puts people off, and they'll probably never come back. Just don't step out the door that way."

I wasn't sure how the Karen's would take that, but the ones that replied all seemed to enjoy it.

And isn't it convenient that Blackface McMegele made the mask edict, which overrides the state's anti-mask law, right in time for insurrectionists to tear down Richmond with no fear of being arrested for being masked?

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 07, 2020 12:42 AM (nAiE/)

798
Thanks for the ONT Miss Hum.
I guess Antifa isn't going to take the Whitehouse tonight.

Is the Venn Diagram of Antifa and Incels pretty close to slightly over lapping circles?

Goodnight good people!

Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at June 07, 2020 12:42 AM (Rz2Nc)

799
Vanya, Woody Allen actually did some pretty good flicks back in the day, before he decided to become a full-time perv.

And Annie Hall isn't bad; in fact it's probably his most accessible film, after his slapstick era ended. Sure it's dated and navel-gazing, but at least funny/entertaining.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 07, 2020 12:42 AM (L2ZTs)

800
Hey whomever suggested "Uncut Gem", that was solidly entertaining, but keep the kids away.
The rating said something I hadn't seen before:
"constant profanity".
Yep

Posted by: navybrat, largely at large at June 07, 2020 12:43 AM (w7KSn)

801
LOLGF!Your account has been temporarily disabled for a violation of this Community Guideline:Be helpful, not hurtfulWe want all neighbors to feel welcome, safe, and respected on Nextdoor. When conversations turn disagreeable, everyone on Nextdoor suffers.

803
Jeff Goldblum, then an unknown, has a FANTASTIC cameo in Annie Hall, btw.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 07, 2020 12:43 AM (L2ZTs)

804
789 Not surprisingly, G Bush came out for Biden today.
I guess he really was a racist murderer of millions during Katrina, after all.
Posted by: navybrat, largely at large at June 07, 2020 12:40 AM (w7KSn)

Who gives a shit what Dubya has to say about anything?

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 07, 2020 12:44 AM (HabA/)

805
Who gives a shit what Dubya has to say about anything?
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 07, 2020 12:44 AM (HabA/)

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Nobody did when he was president so why change now?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 07, 2020 12:45 AM (kVr0X)

806
Who gives a shit what Dubya has to say about anything?
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 07, 2020 12:44 AM (HabA/)

Judging by the responses here, quite a few people, but not in a way he would like.

He's been ordered to shut up and stop writing ANYWHERE about CV19/protest hypocrisy and just about everything else lately, because he wasn't hewing to the leftist SJW line. (He now works for Vox.)

Sorry Andi, it's tough for me to have much sympathy. You lay down with dogs...

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 07, 2020 12:46 AM (L2ZTs)

809
Not surprisingly, G Bush came out for Biden today.
I guess he really was a racist murderer of millions during Katrina, after all.
Posted by: navybrat

Yep.

There goes the AA vote.

Posted by: Unconcerned Miklos at June 07, 2020 12:46 AM (QzkSJ)

810
804 789 Not surprisingly, G Bush came out for Biden today.
I guess he really was a racist murderer of millions during Katrina, after all.
Posted by: navybrat, largely at large at June 07, 2020 12:40 AM (w7KSn)

Who gives a shit what Dubya has to say about anything?
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 07, 2020 12:44 AM (HabA/)

not defending Bush, but at this point it's still possible that the NYT ran this story to try to force Bush to say something publicly one way or the other. There's no indication that Bush himself has said anything at all either way yet.

811
The Bush thing might not be true but don't forget the Democrats successfully ran against Bush in 2008 and 2012 and would have been successful doing the same in 2016 had it not been Trump, who totally separated himself from (George) Bush.

The guy's name is electoral poison.

Posted by: ... at June 07, 2020 12:47 AM (gZ6M8)

812Vanya, Woody Allen actually did some pretty good flicks back in the day, before he decided to become a full-time perv.

Allen was hilarious, until he decided that he was a Serious Artist.

Having Fielding Mellish (Allen's alter-ego) playing cello in the high school marching band still cracks me up.

"From now on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish!"

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 07, 2020 12:47 AM (I2/tG)

813573 Worst thing about the Bush endorsemen is that it will fuel another load of insufferable nonsense from the Q-anon cadre.
Posted by: Orson at June 06, 2020 11:41 PM (/1KEi)

Has Q been right about anything yet? At all?

Posted by: Vanya at June 06, 2020 11:42 PM (BAsqb)

I've got to say that the funniest thing I read was the other day by that idiot Widespread Pepe. Someone posted something about Q-anon or whatever and he went off. Not that Q was fake, no. But that now Q had been taken over by Jared Kushner and so could no longer be trusted. The mental gymnastics some need to go through to keep their fantasies.

Posted by: buzzion at June 07, 2020 12:47 AM (Z7lwY)

814
Love and Death was quite good. Helps to have had exposure to heavy, dreary, self-focused Russian culture.

And Take the Money and Run also had some classic elements. The "gub" scene, for example. A lot of what Allen put into some of those earlier films is now commonplace, but wasn't at the time.

"Your honor, we find the defendant incredibly guilty!"

Posted by: rhomboid at June 07, 2020 12:47 AM (El6T/)

815
Sorry Andi, it's tough for me to have much sympathy. You lay down with dogs...

I was one of the chicks going about in men's shirts and ties and vests after that movie came out. Fashion on the cheap - got a few old men's dress shirts and wore my dad's ties! He taught me how to tie one, although he was a bit mystified by the fact that it was supposed to be a loose, sloppy tie, not the way it tied it when he wore one.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 07, 2020 12:48 AM (HabA/)

817
redc1c4, I received the same notification after posting "LOLGFY Karen" a couple of months ago on Next Door. I think it was Wu flu-related.

Posted by: fly gal at June 07, 2020 12:48 AM (6CtMt)

818
814 Love and Death was quite good. Helps to have had exposure to heavy, dreary, self-focused Russian culture."

and one of the best things is that he's doing a parody of Ingmar Bergman movies at the same time as he's doing Tolstoy.

819not defending Bush, but at this point it's still possible that the NYT ran this story to try to force Bush to say something publicly one way or the other. There's no indication that Bush himself has said anything at all either way yet.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2020 12:46 AM (V2Yro)

Well based on about the past 20 years unless its Trump mocking him he's not going to say anything at all as a response to this.

Somebody earlier today or yesterday said they didn't care much about Indycar because they didn't race on dirt.
There was a time when retired CART cars were no shit raced on dinky WOO tracks. I'd love to see that. More powersliding than Harleys on dirt bullrings at the state fair.

Posted by: Gooshy at June 07, 2020 12:50 AM (9tU8U)

822I was one of the chicks going about in men's shirts and ties and vests after that movie came out. Fashion on the cheap - got a few old men's dress shirts and wore my dad's ties! He taught me how to tie one, although he was a bit mystified by the fact that it was supposed to be a loose, sloppy tie, not the way it tied it when he wore one.

I had a beautiful green silk tie - Italian - from KG Men's store ...

Ah to be young again.
: -))

Posted by: Khal Drogo at June 07, 2020 12:50 AM (LPnfS)

823
797--- And isn't it convenient that Blackface McMegele made the mask edict, which overrides the state's anti-mask law, right in time for insurrectionists to tear down Richmond with no fear of being arrested for being masked?
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 07, 2020 12:42 AM (nAiE/)
------------------------------------------
Terribly convenient.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 07, 2020 12:51 AM (M/9m0)

824
Sorry Andi, it's tough for me to have much sympathy. You lay down with dogs...
Posted by: qdpsteve at June 07, 2020 12:46 AM (L2ZTs)

After all that topnotch gynecological research he did writing about Palin? And we know that particular topic is especially distasteful and icky for Sullivan.

I do smile when I see pics of myself in that Annie Hall getup. That look suited me.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 07, 2020 12:54 AM (HabA/)

837
Woody also had some great stuff from his stand-up, which he did down in JJ's neighborhood - "The Nightclub Years" I think is the book with that. At least one excellent item I used in real life in an interesting situation.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 07, 2020 12:55 AM (El6T/)

838 Those dirt track cars are something else. It's basically a frame of steel tube welded together with sheet metal slapped on to make a semblance of a body. You put a big-ass engine in there and a drive train of sorts.

Posted by: navybrat, largely at large at June 07, 2020 12:56 AM (w7KSn)

842
@793...it sucks to politicize sports, but Trump will likely highlight SEC football in the fall. They love him there, and he'll talk about it being the best football in the country (dig at NFL). A good strategic move would be to become baseball's champion. National pastime, etc, but being a baseball fan in 2020 is like being on the losing side of the cultural revolution. NFL is an inescapable behemoth, and the NBA is shoved down everyone's throats by ESPN. Pretending to give a shit about the NBA is a quick way for white hipsters to show solidarity with the urban oppressed. Baseball on the other hand is for old white guys. Ick. The amusing if it wasn't tragic aspect of this dynamic is MLB is by far the most representative of the U.S.
population of the major American sports. Hispanics are a bit overrepresented but even so the population ethnic breakdown of MLB is near identical to U.S. population. hilariously not so for NFL and NBA. Trump ostentatiously being the baseball fan in chief, esp to the detriment of the unspeakable NBA (which is encroaching on baseball's summer calendar), in the fall would be a good move. Baseballhas to figure it's labor issues out and get on the field first, or course.

Heard at least 5 different series of gunfire going off (not fire works, some of us know the difference).

Not a Siren heard.

Not sure what is going on, I hope its just idiot High School kids celebrating graduation.

But I'm sitting here with a Loaded gun on my desk.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 07, 2020 12:59 AM (NgKpN)

847
609 Heh, #STFUHillary is trending on twitter.
Apparently she's still upset about 2016 and needs to tell people. Posted by: Methos
BernieBros are upset at Hillary. Did she meet with Biden in blackface and try to VP her way back into the WhiteHouse? Or did she blame Bernie for her loss and they blamed her for stealing the nomination?

Posted by: Downcast at June 07, 2020 12:59 AM (xgpfE)

848So how goes the secret, mountain lair phase shifting to a better reality?

Just waiting on inspection of the cardboard box and closing. We're about 20 days out until I own nothing in Maricopa county.

The scene from Annie Hall where he's visiting her family in MN. The silent prim dinner table (contrasted with the bedlam of his family's dinner table), the father looking down the table and seeing a Hasidic Jew. Classic.

Also - some may recall the scene, mid-movie, where they go to LA, Christmas time. Scene is a skyward shot, showing the majestic royal palms against an azure sky, as Christmas music plays.

I saw the movie first on the east coast. Scene brought instant laughs and asides. Month later, I went to see it in CA (home). Complete silence, the palm tree thing was just a transition scene (qdp probably knows the proper term). Not a murmur from the crowd, nothing. Because - normal.

That was interesting at the time.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 07, 2020 01:00 AM (El6T/)

850
Someone is firing pistols and such around me tonight.
They are probably my neighbors.
Just making sure everything works, likely.
All the stores in my neighborhood are boarded up.
Most have rolling gates.
The only store that hasn't been hit with massive shoplifting is the pot store.
They have serious security, 2 guys with pistols wearing ballistic vests, black masks and sunglasses.
And even their store is boarded up.

Posted by: navybrat, largely at large at June 07, 2020 01:01 AM (w7KSn)

I do not think anyone was offended, because you obviously had no idea.

I can't help but laugh. THIS is why speech codes are farcical.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 07, 2020 12:06 AM (A5zUN)

I am not too old to remember free speech in America.

Saturday Night Live.

Still in the '70's.

Chevy Chase and Richard Prior, talking. Richard is being interviewed for a job opening, and Chevy Chase is HR.

"Word Association".

https://tinyurl.com/m96l45b

and in late 1977, Richard Prior had his own show for a while, and did his interpretation of "To Kill A Mockingbird". On NBC, it lasted 4 episodes. A comment in YT proclaims "Prior was 20 years ahead of Dave Chapelle". More like 30, but, details....

With Robin Williams in the Gregory Peck role. Make sure you stay until the end of the skit. Moron weather forecasters especially will appreciate it.

This was when America still had free speech.

The point of both skits was to use laughter to counteract hatred and bigotry. Point it out in a humorous way, to make the point. Because when bigotry is confronted with laughing derision, bigotry only loses.

That is just one advantage of free speech. Especially when used within an educated population.

https://tinyurl.com/y8uov3dj

Sadly, most of today's urban America is too stupid to understand this humor. It is too bad. We will all pay for this stupidity.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 07, 2020 01:06 AM (sy5kK)

859
Chuck Berry was the best. Lyrics to "Let It Rock" and "Nadine", especially, are great.

How clueless am I? I finally just recently realized, the whole song is about the car.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 07, 2020 01:08 AM (L2ZTs)

861
Jim - broadcastify.com has lots of scanners from around the country, you might check to see if Galveston is on the list.

occam - good analysis. Being almost totally cut off from pro or televised sports, hard for me to judge. Looks like the NFL is going in for full-blown racism and race-baiting, that might not work out so well. For one thing, FFS, the DOD ought to review *all* connections and support to pro sports, from the ground up - and I'd say terminate most of them, including advertising. Impetus would have to come from Congress or the WH though, I think - military seems long since lost to the corrosive idiocies of the last 25 years.

The guy was unique, in a way that people are not unique anymore. Original, innovative.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 07, 2020 01:09 AM (bc+R5)

863
If you haven't run straight into the sounds of the guns you are either a peaceful person we endevour to protect in the night, or a fucking troll who should burn slowly in the fire.

Either way, shut it.

Hard men and women stand between you and Hell.

Pray you never understand your ignorance...

Posted by: STFU at June 07, 2020 01:09 AM (5gNjG)

864
I saw the movie first on the east coast. Scene brought instant laughs and asides. Month later, I went to see it in CA (home). Complete silence, the palm tree thing was just a transition scene (qdp probably knows the proper term). Not a murmur from the crowd, nothing. Because - normal.

That was interesting at the time.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 07, 2020 01:00 AM (El6T/)

Reminds me of the Christmas I spent in Florida. It felt utterly weird and surrealistic to someone from Wisconsin - I was wearing shorts and sitting in the backyard eating ribs and drinking beer while looking at Christmas tree lights on palm trees. It felt like the 4th of July, not Christmas.

But the native Floridians didn't find it odd at all

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 07, 2020 01:10 AM (HabA/)

865
Was just checking in before hitting they hay, and noticed I got a H/T for the Quarantine Kids. Now I have to take back every bad thing I said about Jethro Tull and FZ. I guess I have to say that now I'm...

https://tinyurl.com/yddphvzb

Posted by: Going yard at June 07, 2020 01:11 AM (EnlVB)

866
"Memphis, Tennesse" when you realize at the end of the song Chuck's trying to talk to his daughter, not his estranged wife or girlfriend, is heartbreaking.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at June 07, 2020 01:11 AM (ja/kn)

867
Here in Seattle, cops used flash grenades, temporarily dispersed crowd by pushing them back a few hours ago - but they came right back. Couple cops got hurt by rocks and bottles, went to hospital. Crowd chanting 'black lives matter'.

Posted by: Infidel Librarian at June 07, 2020 01:11 AM (GfwZO)

868
Hard men?
SFPD is hiding in their cars.
The FBI took a knee today.
I have a pistol within reach, I'll be just fine.

Posted by: navybrat, largely at large at June 07, 2020 01:12 AM (w7KSn)

869
868 Hard men?
SFPD is hiding in their cars.
The FBI took a knee today.
I have a pistol within reach, I'll be just fine.
Posted by: navybrat, largely at large at June 07, 2020 01:12 AM (w7KSn)

871
782 Drew Brees turned on Trump to appease the mob. He thinks you can appease the mob! Dink.
Posted by: ... at June 07, 2020 12:36 AM (gZ6M

IDK. Not really, it was Brees more like changing the subject than turning on Trump.

But now, he is in the middle of the riot mobs, and no way is he deserving of that. Drew gave his city $5 million out of his pocket to donate to people hurting. Just a few months ago, he was being given awards for his help and support of causes to help people he has little in common with, other than geography.

And the NFL players ignored it, ignored the Flag, and turned on him like jackals.

I was working on a project near Allentown and visited Intercourse and blue ball and the rest of the Amish tourist traps. I didn't get the "I heart intercourse Pennsylvania" baseball cap because I had to place to wear it. Non-buyers remorse caused me to ask my Deep Southern Baptist coworker (I didn't know that at the time) to get one for me on the next trip. He brought the cheaper
"I heart intercourse PA" hat instead. I pointed out that the message wasn't quite the same, and ended up buying the right one on the third trip.

Posted by: Downcast at June 07, 2020 01:14 AM (xgpfE)

873
The FBI took a knee today.
I have a pistol within reach, I'll be just fine.
Posted by: navybrat, largely at large at June 07, 2020 01:12 AM (w7KSn)

I'm willing to compromise with the leftist twats and defund the FBI.

Posted by: bete at June 07, 2020 01:14 AM (Ojki1)

874
LCD, very well put. And you pointed out one of the key things that has happened over the last few decades - loss of the hard-to-define, but important things that were among America's unique treasures.

You'd think that major comedians announcing over the last few years that they would no longer play college campuses would be a shocking wake-up call - but nope.

You know what are humorless places? Authoritarian regimes, dictatorships. All the humor is black, and secret (and often very good, of course).

These idiots have literally destroyed one of America's unique attributes.

Related, the nihilistic, hate-filled, ignorant, Taliban/Nazi/Bolshevik attack on historical monuments and names. Sickening - and 100% un-American, and similar to places with the darkest history on earth.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 07, 2020 01:15 AM (El6T/)

875
These idiots have literally destroyed one of America's unique attributes.

880
For lost American *true* ethnic diversity and humor, on UToob find the Johnny Carson clip with Rickles and Sinatra. I laughed, then shook my head. It was like an artifact from a destroyed civilization.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 07, 2020 01:19 AM (El6T/)

881
We have multiple weapons at hand in the kim household. It seems that the waters gave back after the tragic loss after the boating accident. Miracle from the sea.

Posted by: USNtakim at June 07, 2020 01:19 AM (0OmEj)

882..If you haven't run straight into the sounds of the guns you are either a peaceful person we endevour to protect in the night, or a fucking troll who should burn slowly in the fire.

Either way, shut it.

Hard men and women stand between you and Hell.

Pray you never understand your ignorance...

Posted by: STFU at June 07, 2020 01:09 AM (5gNjG)

I have, and I did again, tonight. Before I came back in and posted my query.

But you be you, Internet Tough Guy.

That said, I'm not quite so stupid as to charge, armed, into the glare of the blue n' red strobes, while a crime scene is still active, if not outright hot.

And sirens now blare again, anew.

I'll just sit right back down again in this here recliner, and see what the 'morrow shall bring.

One thing I know it won't bring, is my corpse, felled in a misbegotten quest to "find out more" when the "20" is crawling with uniforms doing exactly the same, and not exactly in a welcoming mode to a 60 ish guy, armed, and wearing an Aloha shirt, khaki shorts and well worn sketchers.

I've lived through my armed confrontations as a much younger man, and really don't care to actively seek them out more now, in my near-dotage.

But do let the record show, that I tend to have an ability to put many loud holes into many small spaces.

Posted by: navybrat, largely at large at June 07, 2020 01:21 AM (w7KSn)

885
IDK. Not really, it was Brees more like changing the subject than turning on Trump.

But now, he is in the middle of the riot mobs, and no way is he
deserving of that. Drew gave his city $5 million out of his pocket to
donate to people hurting. Just a few months ago, he was being given
awards for his help and support of causes to help people he has little
in common with, other than geography.

And the NFL players ignored it, ignored the Flag, and turned on him like jackals.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 07, 2020 01:14 AM (sy5kK)

I cannot say you are wrong but Brees chose to take a knee to appease people who will always look on him with contempt. In doing so, he also earned the contempt of people who agreed with him.

He has done some good things but if he does not have the courage of his convictions, he has nothing.

887
I remember Chico had that bar where you would sit back in a dentist chair and the bartender would mix the cocktail right in your mouth, ring a bell, then you swallow.
Mechanical bull, sawdust on the floor, loud music.
I wonder if that place is still there.

Posted by: navybrat, largely at large at June 07, 2020 01:24 AM (w7KSn)

Stood up and ate shit for 12 14 16 hour shifts 27 shifts out of 31 last month went to the ED twice for OJT injuries last month.

Eat shit.

Posted by: STFU at June 07, 2020 01:25 AM (5gNjG)

890
I'm not surprised that the people of Delaware need to search how to spell "tragedy." I blame Joe Biden.On that topic, I hear that BushHitler isn't endorsing TrumpHitler. What strange world is this?

Posted by: navybrat, largely at large at June 07, 2020 01:26 AM (w7KSn)

892
buzzion, today saw a clip of Mpls - just a car driving around thru the ravaged areas.

I watch a *lot* of WWII footage. Except for the color video, and the different style of architecture, there was great similarity. Just rubble and devastation.

And that's just buildings, as the unbelievably pathetic and ridiculous child-mayor said as it was happening the first night.

I couldn't force myself to watch the full clips of the older disabled woman distraught over how she would now get her basic necessities, or the young father who'd lost everything saying he didn't know what to tell his small kids ("I did everything right, I did everything right" he repeated, about his working hard and building his life).

Infuriating and sickening beyond words.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 07, 2020 01:27 AM (El6T/)

893
On that topic, I hear that BushHitler isn't endorsing TrumpHitler. What strange world is this?
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess

When all was lost, Himmler tried to negotiate with the Allies.

Didn't work too good.

Posted by: Miklos, the best actual Historian you're likely to get at this hour at June 07, 2020 01:28 AM (QzkSJ)

899
The scene from Annie Hall where he's visiting her family in MN. The silent prim dinner table (contrasted with the bedlam of his family's dinner table), the father looking down the table and seeing a Hasidic Jew. Classic."

that scene always reminded me of a Rehearsal Dinner (before the wedding) at my brothers wedding in Nebraska. about 30 - 40 people, 1/2 from each side. Rented a room with long tables down each side, so we could face each other, and of course a table at the front where the couple and the respective parents sat.

anyway everyone in my family always loved to cut up and have a good time, as did our friends, so we were drinking a lot and eating and throwing grapes at each other with our spoons and just having a whale of a time - and on the other side of the room, there was this long table of HER family, and they all sat there very prim and proper and austere, saying nothing and just staring at all of us.

901I've got to say that the funniest thing I read was the other day by that idiot Widespread Pepe. Someone posted something about Q-anon or whatever and he went off. Not that Q was fake, no. But that now Q had been taken over by Jared Kushner and so could no longer be trusted. The mental gymnastics some need to go through to keep their fantasies.

Posted by: buzzion at June 07, 2020 12:47 AM (Z7lwY)

Now banned once again. Until he appears again, in one guise or another.

We get a lot of the same shitheads, appearing newly with fresh nics, trying to slowly build a new reputation. But, like Winston Wolf's comment, they can't keep their spurs from jingly jangling. They gotta 'present'.

And so they don't generally last.

There is a REASON they got banned before.

Posted by: Squeakhole, CA at June 07, 2020 01:32 AM (Z4rgH)

902I go to them for status reports. I go to Adriane for information.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - fighting with a dying hard drive at June 07, 2020 01:03 AM (SchxB)

Gophers on steroids have dug holes all over the yard!!!!

Coincidently, pvc pipe in various dimeters and slips and thread have also appeared.

What does it all mean you ask?

I'll tell you ...

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after we're finished figuring out which heads are 180 and which are 90 and which are bubblers.

913
858---Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 07, 2020 01:06 AM (sy5kK)
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Hah! Damn, that guy was funny. It's so depressing to know his talent would be stifled today.

(Oh, BTW, your links are reversed! The one for "Word Association" is the second one and the TKAMockingbird is the first.)

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 07, 2020 01:34 AM (M/9m0)

914Half the problem around here anyway is that all the bars and nightclubs are still closed. Kids can be in a crowd twenty deep in front of the nightclub protesting, but inside? That's just crazy talk.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at June 07, 2020 01:31 AM (Wm5SB)

Just so long as they aren't protesting -that- the clubs aren't open. Cause that signals they just want grandma to die.

Posted by: MSM at June 07, 2020 01:34 AM (Ojki1)

915
I want Publius to wear the black fedora I bought for him to this dirt track date. He usually doesn't wear it because the brim hits the back of the head rest in the truck.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess

924
304 The big problem with vigilantes is that they usually get the wrong man. Their criminal identification system is... inadequate.

Uh...Placerville California, during the gold rush, was known locally as "Hangtown. The town had an effective Committee of Vigilance that worked quite well; the bad guys, so determined by the miner's court, had their names posted and they were given until Friday to vacate the environs of the city. Those who stayed were hunted down and hanged.
This system would still work:
Lawyers! We don't need no stinkin' lawyers!
(Insom excepted).

Posted by: waepnedmann at June 07, 2020 01:38 AM (0V2uM)

925Chuck said, repeatedly, that Maybelline was the girl, not the car.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2020 01:32 AM (dmOyA)

Howeber, David Lee Roth said Panama ... was the car and not the girl ...

Posted by: Adriane the You Might as well Be Giants Jumping Rope Critic ... at June 07, 2020 01:38 AM (LPnfS)

926
Being a jizz mopper in a gay nudie booth is a harsh life. We're right out there on the thin, ragged edge between a satisfying experience and one that gets ruined because there are so many cum streaks on the glass that the ambience is destroyed.

I was watching a medical examiner show on Reelz Saturday night, about the death of Robin Williams. Lots of interesting stuff.

Like most, when I heard of his suicide, I thought, 'WTF? Dude had it all.' Watching the show, I found out that he had, and knew he had, Parkinson's. That was devastating in its own right. But the thing that really got my attention was when they did pathology on his brain. They found Lewey's bodies in his brain. No one knew this before he died. Lewey's Body Dementia is not Alzheimer's, but a different form of dementia. So not only did Williams know he was losing control of his body, he didn't know he was losing control of his mind. There are many symptoms of Lewey's Body Dementia, including paranoia, hallucinations and depression.

On the night before his death, he was apparently exceedingly paranoid and took his collection of classic wristwatches, put them into a sock and took them to a friend's house and told him to take care of them for him.

Also, the disease can cause loss of control of bodily functions, including excessive urination, which probably caused him pain due to an enlarged prostate.

There was also mention of the fact that he put a towel around the belt he hanged himself with, in the front of his neck; this a trick used by people who are into auto-erotic asphyxiation. At one point, he was in a movie where he played a father who finds his son dead from auto-erotic asphyxiation.

So Williams knew he had Parkinson's, didn't know he had Lewey's Body Dementia, was paranoid and in pain and clearly thought the only way out was 'rational' suicide.

While Williams had it all, he was also losing it all, as well, that is losing himself, who he was. His suicide became more understandable/explainable after that show. Very sad.

I guess he wasn't always Mr. Easygoing. It's claimed at Wikipedia that when he was divorcing Annie Martell (of "Annie's Song") in the early 1980s, he not only almost choked her once, he also took their bed and chainsawed it in half.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 07, 2020 01:44 AM (L2ZTs)

943
Pretty quiet tonight. I expected worse.
Why, it's almost as if AG Barr knows who is financing this crap...

Posted by: navybrat, largely at large at June 07, 2020 01:45 AM (w7KSn)

A state ethics committee ruled on Friday that former Colorado governor and current Senate candidate John Hickenlooper (D.) violated a ban on accepting gifts while in office.

The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission decided that Hickenlooper's flight on a campaign donor's private jet, as well as his attendance at a conference in Italy, violated the ban, according to the Colorado Sun. Hickenlooper initially refused to appear at the hearing, prompting the condemnation of a federal judge and members of the commission.

Not just initially, he totally refused to appear.

Do you speak Guilty, motherfucker? Well, do ya?

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 07, 2020 01:50 AM (Z4rgH)

952
Would that be, coincidentally, about the time the okra crop comes in?

Posted by: Miklos, who likes okra, but still at June 07, 2020 01:49 AM (QzkSJ)

956Circuits 3 and 4 are probably re-useable with a few tweaks. Haven't even found the Circuit 1 heads yet.Cardboard box has a zone that feeds a drip system. So it may be a while before you find anything.

962
Well, I am going to call it a night. Got the engine safely pulled out of the car that I am dismantling. That went real slick. Didn't find any forgotten wires, hoses or cables, either. Engine is still hanging from the hoist. I unbolted the transmission, and withdrew that. Engine will get cleaned up, and installed in a Zip van; it's a good runner.

Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2020 01:54 AM (dmOyA)

963
GnuBreed, I saw that about Hickenlooper. I kinda sense he's a strong favorite against the GOP incumbent, but haven't been digging into the CO race.

In another America, long ago yet not that long ago, this kind of thing would be 4 torpedoes amidships to a candidate.

Today? For a Dem, literally a nothingburger, as though it never happened (which it won't, as there's no press, so actual news about it will be minimized, or short-lived). For a GOP, instant vaporization or serious wound.

I deserved every wall-to-wall correction I got and needed quite a few more or at least would have benefited from quite a few more.

Therapeutic ass-kicking is remarkably therapeutic... In retrospect...

Posted by: STFU at June 07, 2020 01:58 AM (5gNjG)

970
I walked out this morning and I mopped up this jizz
I just can't remember who to send it to...
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess - Hydroxy Chloro Queen and Bat Soup Nazi at June 07, 2020 01:57 AM (rCwaK)

974
Just yesterday morning they let me know you had come
Oh man the mess they made put an end to you
I walked out this morning and I mopped up this jizz
I just can't remember who to send it to...
Posted by: Miley

Posted by: USN takin now with more deplorable at June 07, 2020 02:06 AM (0OmEj)

982
Huh. 77th anniversary of the Zoot Suit Riots in LA. They have another name - with "lake" in it.

Anyway. Recall my deceased WWII USMC friend talking about how large parts of LA were off-limits because of this. He had already been at Guadalcanal (aviation), and was back El Toro with his 2nd squadron when it happened.

He still managed to get some time in the brig in San Pedro, thanks to a brawl with sheriffs after a UCLA game at the Rose Bowl. He was in the chow line at the brig, when a voice from behind the counter yells "Red!" (his nickname) - a high school friend .... who said he didn't expect to see him in *that* chow line.

Posted by: USN takin now with more deplorable at June 07, 2020 02:03 AM (0OmEj)

Brand spanking new hash and nic, according to Google.

Just another another tiresome troll.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 07, 2020 02:10 AM (Z4rgH)

993
Just a clever troll who knows just enough language, nics, memes and BS to seem sort of legit.

Or an AD dude who wandered in from 2007 pre Barky and has lurked with occasional wandering nics.

Or Bob from Nothing provoking actionable intel.

Or a retired squirrel, grandma, fuckin wit ya....

Or, a STEM cannibal in collander face mask...

Posted by: STFU at June 07, 2020 02:12 AM (5gNjG)

994
redc - *14* spare mags?? That should hold you til the air strike arrives.

I've toyed with getting one of them Norinco repros of the military shotgun (forget - Model 12?), partly to be able to do a whole WWII "heavy metal" thing at 3-gun match (if I can find one), and partly because they slam-fire. Which is probably a terrible feature, but sounds fun.

997
I knew a Brandy that bought Brandy by the case. Told her just as an internal joke she looked 25. In actuality, she didn't look a nanosecond under 40. But she liked me from then on. Sometimes you just say shit.

Awww Jim, so nice of you to say! He snagged me through his wit, intelligence and irreverence. And his dirty mind.But most importantly, he asked me to come down to SC. So I did. That was pretty ballsy of him.

1006
Awww Jim, so nice of you to say! He snagged me through his wit, intelligence and irreverence. And his dirty mind.
But most importantly, he asked me to come down to SC. So I did. That was pretty ballsy of him.
Posted by: Miley

Jim SMD Is the single most legit poster tonight, as is so often the case and has been for many years. Question, more than a decade? I'm not sure. In/out here since 2007 and I don't recall exactly when Jim came on board. But his honor knowledge and general decency has characterized what the ONT is supposed to be. Poking him with a stick is an honor. Some of the rest of you need to jump in the pool maskless and work on your survival breathing.

1021
I said the wrong thing on FB yesterday and got banned for 24 hours. It wasn't a good thing to drunkenly blurt out, but I appreciate that now we all know the limit.

Posted by: Menack at June 07, 2020 02:36 AM (buTO7)

1022
Wouldn't it be cool to be a dragon - fly over these antifa goons and breathe fire on them? Dragons don't give a shit. Like honey badgers.

Posted by: Miley, the Kraken at June 07, 2020 02:36 AM (rCwaK)

1023
Drudge has reported the Bush swine will support the communists. If you live in Texas and can get at Jeb Jr., whose disgusting queer Dad described him as "the little brown one," please use everything at your disposal to both destroy the bastard and his family and anyone who has ever supported this human garbage.

One good thing, a friend who never takes much seriously in political or social matters opened a conversation this week about firearms. He doesn't have any.
In the past, his answer was always, "you live close, and I'll just borrow one from you." Now, he is having the conversation, but most local gun stores are pretty cleaned out to test them before he buys.

Still, at least he started the conversation this time. It was something on his mind, for some crazy reason.

June 6th, 1944...barely a mention because of course....George.... "Just another of the millions of Black men murdered by Terrorist Police men throughout the history of our RACist Country....just like South Africa!!!!!

Speaking of tractors, I let Miley's brother drive a couple of tractors this afternoon. First time in his life he had ever driven one. I started him on the little 3910, and he did so well, I decided I'd let him try the big boy with the 15' mower behind it.

I let him ride a few rounds with me, then put him in the seat. He did really well. He'll have to get some experience to get things coordinated fully and smoothly, but he done good for his first time.

1049
I let him ride a few rounds with me, then put him in
the seat. He did really well. He'll have to get some experience to get
things coordinated fully and smoothly, but he done good for his first
time.

Its been a tiring week. Fending off the politically correct crocodiles all around me. And if I get one more of these inane emails from a retailer, for goodness sake, posturing as woke and supportive of black lives matter, I will puke. I responded to the one from the Gaines's because I thought it was so unnecessary, and not true to them.

If I had the dough I'd start a retail company which explicitly bills itself as a RETAILER of (fill in the blank) not a political organization.

These creeps are constantly employing the tactics of boycotts to bully people. Figuratively "taking the knee".

And then I hear about the GOLD PLATED COFFIN (Is this true?) for George Floyd?! Gimme a break. The family is cashing in.

If someone wants to show a real witness about racial issues, let's return to the Charleston SC church where the nutjob racist shot up people in church. Those folks talked about forgiveness, and had some dignity. Nobody rioted at that.

Posted by: groovygirl at June 07, 2020 03:01 AM (ybC9u)

1054
When is a blog classified as "antique"?
Posted by: Miley, the Kraken at June 07, 2020 02:58 AM (rCwaK)
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I could be wrong, but I think the underlying code of this blog stopped being officially supported by the developer about 2005. But you don't change what works.

Posted by: Menack at June 07, 2020 03:01 AM (buTO7)

1055I let him ride a few rounds with me, then put him in the seat. He did really well. He'll have to get some experience to get things coordinated fully and smoothly, but he done good for his first time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 07, 2020 02:57 AM (rCwaK)

next, get him to paint the fence.

Posted by: Tom Sawyer at June 07, 2020 03:03 AM (sy5kK)

1056
Ten years ago, ONT would get about 600 posts, maybe a little more, now its consistently above 1000

1062 The biggest thing with Miley's brother was learning about steering brakes. That was totally unfamiliar. The ground we were on wasn't plowed and it was just a mower behind it, not a plow or other ground engaging implement, so turning wasn't that difficult.

But I was showing him how to use them (and to watch the turning radius so as not to let the tongue contact the tires when turning), and I saw that was the biggest new thing he had to learn.

It will take some practice to get that smooth.

It was fun to watch someone first learning and see what came natural and what didn't.

"a BIG fruity West Side Paso Robles Zinfandel with a 15.9% AVB, of course.

#Duh."

Kroger, Italian, labeled as Zin but Primitivo. You shit all over my life

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at June 07, 2020 03:17 AM (puu6v)

1064
She worked the mom and pop truck stops from Oklahoma to Tennessee, finally hitting the big time as a lot lizard at a Pilot station in Knoxville. She was such a pro she could tell you the make and model of a truck by laying on her back in the sleeper with 10 inches of unwashed cock up her ass while pregnant with STFU. Tell us more about all your memories as a child. The smell of diesel in the air, your mother moaning as the sun rose over an I-85 rest stop as the air escaped from your toy doll and the quest to find your father was never to be.

I worked EMS in Oakland CA in the 80's...so I have unique perspective of the African American Community.

Maybe a harsh analogy...yet My life in and around these issues. My #1 was from my wife's first marriage who had an African American Sperm Donor who declined to be a Father as was the MO of the majority of their type. I stepped in and raised him. He became a very fine young man, joined the military just after 911 because Dad had been military. He actually wanted my same MOS Corpsman rating even though it put him in with the Marines and he ended up on point for the invasion of Iraq + another tour. Got out ...missed his guys and re-up'd with the Marines for another 3 tours including Afgan. He is out now and works for the VA helping Vets link to needed services. They love him because he knows what they are going through.

Nobody really remembers why Bill Cosby was taken out.

It was a total set up. Why? Because he went from comedy to completely bracing his own community about how fucked up they were in the raising of their children and the whole "Black Victim" Bullshit. The DEM plantation owners took care of that matter quickly and efficiently kinda like a Clinton aide suicide or an Epstein suicide now we have George covering for Obama and his crimes.

1071
"While I understand and respect the rights of individuals to protect their property, I am also deeply troubled at the ease with which another life has been taken among this chaos," Kenney said at a press conference Tuesday. Any life lost is sad, no matter the situation, the mayor said."

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I have never hated a politician like I hate Jim Kenney. He's easily the worst mayor we've had in my lifetime, and we've had quite a few bad ones. He's just a pure scumbag. He obviously hates the majority of his constituents. I finally have set the wheels in motion to get out of this ridiculous city, hopefully the recent events won't dissuade some dopey Millennial from overpaying for my rowhouse.

It was a total set up. Why? Because he went from comedy to completely bracing his own community about how fucked up they were in the raising of their children and the whole "Black Victim" Bullshit. The DEM plantation owners took care of that matter quickly and efficiently kinda like a Clinton aide suicide or an Epstein suicide now we have George covering for Obama and his crimes.

--

Oh, I remember. I know some black folks around here resented Cosby for the cardinal sin of "airing the dirty laundry". Can't have any of that personal responsibility nonsense.

Posted by: Midnight Rambler at June 07, 2020 03:54 AM (HEiLh)

1076
Democrats are all in on protecting and covering for their base, the looting and destroying mob.
Kenney certainly is one of the worse mayors

1086
901 I've got to say that the funniest thing I read was the other day by that idiot Widespread Pepe. Someone posted something about Q-anon or whatever and he went off. Not that Q was fake, no. But that now Q had been taken over by Jared Kushner and so could no longer be trusted. The mental gymnastics some need to go through to keep their fantasies.

Posted by: buzzion at June 07, 2020 12:47 AM (Z7lwY)

Now banned once again. Until he appears again, in one guise or another.

We get a lot of the same shitheads, appearing newly with fresh nics, trying to slowly build a new reputation. But, like Winston Wolf's comment, they can't keep their spurs from jingly jangling. They gotta 'present'.

And so they don't generally last.

There is a REASON they got banned before.
Posted by: Squeakhole, CA at June 07, 2020 01:32 AM (Z4rgH)

I got banned and then the next day not only did ace right a column about what I was banned for (the Marxists and the Fake right pushing a race war). Also, Paul Sperry reported and confirmed what I produced evidence scientific studies on for only for it to be erased and that was Floyd had lethal amounts of fentanyl in his blood. He swallowed his stash of fentanyl is can be measured in micrograms. Then I wasn't banned because I posted on that very blog post at the end of the comments.

Anyway, once again buzzion is being dishonest, lying, and showing his ignorance. I said QAnon, which I followed since the first 4chan post and have struggled if it's real or a pacification OP, was started by a well known 4Chan ANON and troll, Microchip. Jack Posobiec reported this on OANN.

An organization picked up where Microchip left off, many on the Right suspect Kushner recruited some Mossad or friends to run the Operation.
buzzion, not only do you lie, you are dishonest and painfully ignorant about what's going on. You also act Ike a gamma. You should work on that. Seriously, stop with the ankle biting and spreading lies and gossip about other men, you sound like a girl trying to win good girl points. It's sad. Try lifting, playing sports, starting a family and having kids, and set other goals. I promise whether you win or lose, you will move away from your gamma tendencies.

To the point of not being able to hang, I laugh at that. I've been reading ace since college. I started lightly commenting lightly around 2014 under different names after lurking for 7-8. I started commenting regularly around middle 2016. The reason why I left is because i have a life and I don't engage in e-drama between men that this place has become the last couple of years. I was blessed by selling my remaining assets in the fall, and I saw the pandemic devolving in early January. I let it all ride on VIXs, shorting the indexes, and placing puts on stocks in various sectors that was obviously hit. I then went back to court for a final hearing for an alienation case, and to my shock the Judge awarded me primary custody on my kids. I offered their mom 50-50 but I get the tie breaker, but she went mental and doesn't want anything to do with them. I was also awarded legal fees and child support, and her wages are garnished to pay for this. I bought a house down the street from my parents, and my cousins. I put my kids in Christian homeschooling group, and they are thriving with me and my family. Now I help manage my family's money and other's doing research outside of the technicals and fundamentals.... basically I'm getting paid to do what i love and thats think outside the box, research, and connect the political dots at home. I meetings with my boss occur over lunch or dinner. My kids get to train with me. I get to work with them regarding sports they are interested in. We build things together. It's fucking great. I literally only post when I'm taking a shit like now and coffee makes me poop. People leave because if you don't give up, have a set of balls and take risks, act like a man, behave like a Christian the best you can, get involved in your community and help your people,.... shit life can turn around for the better.

Saturday Evening Movie Thread 06-06-2020 [TheJamesMadison]

Alexander the Awful

Gladiator made a mark on Hollywood in 2000. Financially successful and well regarded by both critics (except for Roger Ebert) and the Academy, Ridley Scott's sword and sandals epic ignited Hollywood's love of epics for the first time in decades, something even the success of Mel Gibson's Braveheart could not do. The love affair didn't last very long, though, because none of the movies that followed where nearly as successful critically or commercially, and the genre rebirth died out.

Wolfgang Peterson's Troy was fine but nothing special. Scott's own Kingdom of Heaven,in the form of the director's cut, is fantastic though only released in a single theater. Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur was overserious but fine. Peter Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World was great. They all came and went to various levels of fanfare and box office receipts. The one film that really sticks out to me, though, is Oliver Stone's take on the life of Alexander the Great.

However, Stone's movie is a fever dream of incoherence, and it absolutely fascinates me. Don't get me wrong, I kind of hate this movie, but it's just so wrong in so many ways that I finally took the plunge and watched three of the film's four versions (the theatrical version, the director's cut, and the Final Cut) in a week. I am here to report.

A Brief Background

Oliver Stone's film was released in November of 2004 with hopes of capturing some industry awards. This was dashed once anyone saw it and realized that the film was a complete mess. Trying to save his film, he came up with a Director's Cut in 2005 that was released on DVD that ended up being eight minutes shorter than the theatrical cut.

This DVD release was apparently a very large success for Warner Bros., and they gave Stone money to recut the film one more time. Released in 2007, Stone's Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut came out on DVD and Blu-ray. Three hours and thirty-four minutes long, it included over half an hour of footage left on the cutting room floor. He broke his word, though, when he released the Ultimate Cut, a slightly refined version of The Final Cut that Stone has called this his final word on the project, hoping that it captured the complete complexity of the historical figure.

And that, right there, is the source of the problem with the movie.

Dewey the Great

Do you remember a little biopic satire called Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story? It was a direct satire of the Joaquin Phoenix led and James Mangold directed biopic of Johnny Cash called Walk the Line. In it, John C. Reilly plays Dewey Cox, a fictional singer who leads the most generic rock and roll rise and fall story you can imagine. (It's also hilarious and you should watch it.)

I bring it up because its satire goes beyond just biopics of singers, but it extends into biopics in general. In particular are two things in Walk Hard that Alexander does as well. The first is that John C. Reilly plays Dewey Cox from the age of fourteen to his 70s, and it's really weird to see Colin Farrell, buff and with a five o'clock shadow already peeking through, playing Alexander at seventeen. The second is that Walk Hard tries to capture the entire life in all its complexities of a fictional complicated man, providing easy answers all along the way. This is pretty much what Alexander does, giving several easy answers that all seem to conflict with each other.

You see, Oliver Stone grew up idolizing Alexander the Great. From the time he was a boy, he imagined being part of the great march through Asia to India at the Macedonian's side. It's obvious that he knows a lot about the historical figure, and he tried to fit everything he knew and everything he had created to fill the historical gaps into a single three-hour (or three and a half hour) film. There's simply too much to the life of the real historical figure, much less when you combine it with the imagination of a man who grew up thinking of what could have been. Stone never sat down to figure out what he wanted to say about Alexander, using the historical figure's life as a vehicle to tease out an individual lesson about the human condition.

Fortune Favors the Bold

There is a scene early in the film where Philip takes young Alexander into a cave underneath Pella and shows him representations of some of the most important Greek myths. There's Achilles, Jason and Medea, Cronos and Zeus, as well as Oedipus. Literally every single one of these myths ends up playing out in Stone's version of Alexander. The great hero undone by the death of a close male friend and lover, the far-traveling hero who marries a foreign woman and betrays her for another, the father and son at war, and the son in love with his mother all are part of this take on Alexander. Trying to tease through all of these overlapping takes, as well as a couple of others that aren't captured on the cave walls, and figure out a basic point for the story's telling and existence is an exercise in futility.

At no point in Stone's efforts to write, independently finance the one hundred and fifty-five million dollars for the budget, film, and edit did he settle on one thing to say about Alexander. This is a vital lesson for any storytellers out there, especially those that are trying to pull from real life. There's nothing more complex and contradictory as the life of a normal human being than one of a great figure of history. If you want to use such a figure, you must realize that you will not capture the entire truth of the person in a two to three hour piece of art. Don't try to show us the totality of their existence from the moment they could walk to the moment of their death, show us who they were in a specific moment in time. Steven Spielberg's Lincoln is a good example of using a single event to tease out who the subject was as a person.

A Disjointed Whole

Oliver Stone's Alexander has another problem on top of trying to capture the entirety of Alexander's life. It's that Stone barely tries to bridge the massive gaps between events he portrays. It flabbergasted me every time I started a new edition that literally every step from Alexander leaving Macedonia to the Battle at Gaugamela is skipped over. He goes from a boy just taking the crown of his fallen father and king to a battle-hardened commander with the ability to take apart enemy strategies with unconventional tactics. It makes me question what story of Alexander Stone was trying to tell.

If it was the conquest of Asia, why spend so much time in Macedonia?

If it was his relationship with his parents, why spend so much time in Asia?

It extends back to the central problem that Stone wanted to tell the entire story of Alexander, and in order to cover that much ground he has to ironically skip a lot. That's the purpose of Ptolemy's voiceover. In every cut of the film, he provides filler for a lot of narrative holes brought up because there are huge gaps in the story like the skip from Alexander leaving Macedon to the Battle of Gaugamela. That's a huge campaign that includes the conquering of Egypt, and it's passed over with a single line of voiceover. There's also the plot against Alexander's life by Philotas.

There is not a single general in Alexander's retinue who comes across as a full character in this three and a half hour film, so when, more than two hours into the movie, Philotas gets accused of trying to assassinate Alexander, pretty much everything about it, from an explanation that Philotas was a friend to Alexander since childhood to the implications of his execution for the army as a whole, gets laid out in voiceover. We mostly know Philotas as the guy who yelled at Alexander's wedding because of a grudge from the Battle of Gaugamela, so the voiceover is required just to catch us up. It ends up feeling like having a Wikipedia entry read to us instead of being a scene of drama.

Are Any of the Cuts Good?

In a word: No. None of them are good, however The Final Cut is the least bad of them. The changes in structure, that mostly make the film a constant jump between Alexander before he leaves for his war with Persia and the other timeline that starts at the Battle of Gaugamela, are a mixed bag, but they do produce some interesting results. It also fixes one particular sequence as much as editing could fix the sequence, which is the marriage of Alexander to Roxana.

Through all three cuts that I watched, though, there are several individual elements that stand out as either good or even great. First is Val Kilmer as Philip. Out of the three principles, it is Kilmer who seems to know what kind of movie he's in: a historical epic. He plays Philip as a wounded, broken man and king who's doing his best. Farrell as Alexander, in comparison, never feels like he's in anything other than a soap opera while Angelina Jolie as Olympias feels like she's playing a sexy Russian vampire. The two battle sequences are also great. Gaugamela uses a bird's eye view and a pre-battle discussion on tactics to provide a larger view that keeps the overall conflict in focus while delving in deeply to the hand to hand combat keeping things exciting. The Indian battle does not have the advantage of the overhead view (a conscious decision, I believe, since we see the eagle depart at one point earlier in the film), but it's filmed just as well with a great use of unusual film stock to help visualize Alexander's near death experience. Roxana's dance is also one of the most visually thrilling single scenes in the film.

That totals maybe 45 minutes of the film, in all of the cuts, while everything else around them is simply wrong.

Oliver Stone was wrong for the movie, not just because he couldn't contain his excitement about making a movie about Alexander the Great enough to drill down to a specific story to tell, but he's visually wrong for the material as well. This is an epic of large characters in large settings, and outside of the battle sequences, the movie is about 75% done in closeup. He doesn't seem to understand some basic filmmaking techniques about framing subjects in order to capture correct emotional resonances. In general, you use a close up in order to heighten a large emotional moment, to bring the audience closer to the subject in frame experiencing some great emotional feeling. When literally every conversation, no matter how mundane, is filmed entirely in closeups, it kills the emotional clarity of the series of images that is the film. As with all rules in art, you can break them and still work, but Stone doesn't seem to understand why he's filming in closeup. It's just his default.

So...Why?

So, I set out to watch three cuts of a bad movie, and most of you are wondering why. Well, it's a good question.

There's something missing in big movies these days, and it's ambition. Even bigger movies tend to operate on smaller cinematic scales that limit their reach, and it's because of the failure of movies like Alexander that producers are less and less likely to sink nine figures into some big, bold production. They fail a lot. Not just artistically or critically but, most importantly for producers, commercially.

And I bemoan the loss of that sort of crazy gamble. People like Oliver Stone, Darren Aronofsky, and John Boorman are crazy people with crazy ideas who attack stories in crazy ways. That can sometimes work, and oftentimes doesn't. [u]Alexander[/u] is an example of when that doesn't work, and yet, there was such effort and hope placed in Stone's broken vision that I find it all kind of hypnotic.

So, despite Alexander's failings artistically, cinematically, and commercially, it is something that I want more of. I want more interesting failures.

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That old man in Buffalo fell over like he was the Bills defense in a Super Bowl. So is it 40 days of mourning and penance for St George? Do we get to celebrate Independence Day this year?

I enjoyed Dewey Cox...it's kind of the last hurrah from the Todd Phillips' Frat Pack films, most of which were pretty funny. Since humor is dead as an art form, I'll look back fondly on the era of the naughts, which I never thought I'd say.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 06, 2020 08:05 PM (DY3v8)

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16 And I'm a fan of Colin Farrell. He's a good actor, just wrong for this role.

Who would have been a great Alexander?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at June 06, 2020 08:04 PM (Dc2NZ)

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Young, boyish, big nose, and with a commanding presence.

I kinda feel like that Timothy Chalamet guy might have the chops, if he can do the commanding presence.

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20 I enjoyed Dewey Cox...it's kind of the last hurrah from the Todd Phillips' Frat Pack films, most of which were pretty funny. Since humor is dead as an art form, I'll look back fondly on the era of the naughts, which I never thought I'd say.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 06, 2020 08:05 PM (DY3v

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The best description of Bohemian Rhapsody I've read is, "Who decided to remake Dewey Cox but leave out all the jokes?"

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Other than a maybe a few drive-ins, I'm not seeing much of a future for movie theaters. AMC is gone - not very many big chains left.Drive-ins have got big land requirements - which mean lots of property taxes. Their advantage is lots of semi private make out opportunity.

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I kinda feel like that Timothy Chalamet guy might have the chops, if he can do the commanding presence.
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We'll find out if he's commanding as Paul Atreides. Looking forward to "Dune". I've liked him in everything I've seen him in.

Oh, segue -- Chalamet was the son in "Interstellar". I re-watched “Interstellar” today and enjoyed it even more the second time. I have always liked Matthew McConaughey for his quiet all-American everydude vibe (not just his penchant for nude bongo playing!). This had moments of real poetic beauty as their ship traveled searching for another planet to call home. The shot of the tiny station gliding past huge Saturn was gorgeous. It has the grandeur of Kubrick but with heart.

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So David Lean goes to the Hollywood money men and says I'm going to shoot a movie about a Brit that no one in America knows. And I'm going to shoot in 70mm in the desert. And it's going to be four hours long. And there's no love story unless you count an off screen homosexual rape. There won't even be any women in it. Not a one.

Who's your leading man?

An unknown Irish stage actor. You've never heard of him!

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 06, 2020 08:13 PM (9TdxA)

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44 Troy is improved by switching languages and turning on English subtitles. I don't know why, but it works better.

I didn't watch Alexander. I had more fun reading about him in Plutarch.

If someone other than a dedicated leftist had made the movie, like John Milius, I'd have gambled on it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at June 06, 2020 08:13 PM (d1uFV)

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45 So David Lean goes to the Hollywood money men and says I'm going to shoot a movie about a Brit that no one in America knows. And I'm going to shoot in 70mm in the desert. And it's going to be four hours long. And there's no love story unless you count an off screen homosexual rape. There won't even be any women in it. Not a one.

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John C. Riley was in a recent film with Steve Coogan called Stan and Ollie (Riley was Ollie). I thought it was depressing, but their imitations were spot on. Even the classic bits they recreated were good.

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So David Lean goes to the Hollywood money men and says I'm going to shoot a movie about a Brit that no one in America knows. And I'm going to shoot in 70mm in the desert. And it's going to be four hours long. And there's no love story unless you count an off screen homosexual rape. There won't even be any women in it. Not a one.

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I tried to record it but we had a series of weather related Emergency Alert System intrusions which prevented a substantial part from and broke up what I got into four parts. I have it up and will get it next time.

The Movie Post is here, not going to mix in politics because movies are about escapism and imagination, and I am not going to mess that up for anyone.

But I indirectly answered both Krak and JJ's posts from earlier today. I believe I have a solution much better than national divorce or open warfare. At least worth trying. And yes, it's long, so you've been warned.

Back to the thread at hand. I did see this week where AMC, the giant movie chain, may go down forever. That would be sad and I hope it doesn't happen. People need movie theaters to congregate and enjoy their off-time. And theaters are a great source of first-time jobs for teens. Of course Mark Cuban, who owns the Landmark Theater chain, is probably licking his chops.

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The problem with Alexander was A: Farrell cant act for shit, he mostly just stares with his mouth open, and 2: Stone was more interested in a gay storyline than he was in the important part of the story. once kilmer dies, the movie is effectively over. and the battle scenes which should have been epic, are a snoozefest.

Patton is another biopic where they take just one section of his life. It works really well. It's Patton the warrior.
Posted by: WOPR - Looking for Filthy Lucre at June 06, 2020 08:21 PM (CCWyU)

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Yeah, it's such a better approach. Give us a deep dive into one man's life at a particular moment so we can see him in all his complexity there. You don't have to find the moment when his mommy told him that going all the way was what he was born to do to explain his need to drive to Berlin.

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The large AMC theater here has been close for 11 weeks. Fairly new building too, sure the mortgage isn't paid for.

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2020 08:23 PM (6f16T)

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I loved King Arthur and Gladiator. I turned Alexander off and took it back to the rental place. It blew chunks.

Posted by: Vic at June 06, 2020 08:23 PM (mpXpK)

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In all of these historical epics the people are just so clean. Must have had really good plumbing back then.

Posted by: Javems at June 06, 2020 08:23 PM (ofIwF)

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Master and Commander is quite good at capturing much of the books. The slow pace of sailing oceans, punctuated by the terror of old timey broadsides. Could there be a better Aubrey than Russell Crowe?

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42 I know I've seen Alexander, but I literally don't remember anything about it. Colin Farrell looks terrible as a blond, but in general he is a smokin hottie.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 08:12 PM (OzQGF)

Nah he's short and has this perplexed look on his face all the time. Not a fan.

Posted by: Cheriebebe at June 06, 2020 08:24 PM (w6A0l)

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84 42 I know I've seen Alexander, but I literally don't remember anything about it. Colin Farrell looks terrible as a blond, but in general he is a smokin hottie.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 08:12 PM (OzQGF)

Nah he's short and has this perplexed look on his face all the time. Not a fan.
Posted by: Cheriebebe at June 06, 2020 08:24 PM (w6A0l)

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Suppose they made a movie about a Philly IBEW leader who doesn't think defunding the PD is realistic. And who asked in a moment of frustration: 'One bad cop did a horrible thing and now everybody has to pay for it??'. That movie would be based on the words of the infamous Johnny Doc, democrat of course.

Posted by: kallisto at June 06, 2020 08:25 PM (Rf71G)

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I saw 'Arsenic and Old Lace' the other day. I didn't realize Peter Lorre was in it . He was fantastic.

Posted by: dantesed at June 06, 2020 08:21 PM (88xKn)

I was in the senior class play which was Arsenic and Old Lace. I asked for a small part and ended up being the villain. It's a fun play.

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92 You don't have to find the moment when his mommy told him that going all the way was what he was born to do to explain his need to drive to Berlin.

Apropos of nothing, there is a true story about Patton and Macarthur standing exposed next to each other in WWI while shells rained down. Both had too much ego to take cover if the other one wouldn't.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 06, 2020 08:25 PM (yQpMk)

Hhhmmmm. Well...possibly. It's a lot of fun, and wait a minute. McClane's daughter. YES!!!!
Ahhahaaha, she was awesome! And nerdy guy from Galaxy Quest steals the entire movie at the end!
Parkour guy, just amazing.
Bad guy snarking at his henchman who couldn't handle the daughter was brilliant.
Hot Asian chick with an SUV up her ass....hehehehe.

But.......best?
SURE, WHY NOT?!?!!

Posted by: Gooshy at June 06, 2020 08:29 PM (DCVgi)

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87 "T.E. Lawrence" was the Final Jeopardy answer a few days back and not one person answered correctly. And they were teachers!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at June 06, 2020 08:24 PM (Dc2NZ)

To be fair, the teachers missed the question that is Constitutional knowledge I learned in 6th grade, and repeated in 11th grade civics class.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 06, 2020 08:29 PM (sy5kK)

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Colin Farrell was terrific as the vampire in "Fright Night", although the movie was owned by David Tennant as the magician.

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Even in historical biographies, it helps to have a single vanishing point on which to focus things. Mr. Stone forgot this in his eagerness to tell the story about his favorite historical character (and in full disclosure I have never seen any version of the movie).

Take Simon Sebag Montefiore's Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. The vanishing point of the book was the suicide of Stalin's wife, Nadezhda, in November 1932. Yes, Stalin was a complete asshole and power-mad before that, and already began showing his true colors (especially in Ukraine), but that moment is when he lost the few marbles he had left. (This is the sense you get reading the bio.) He tells the story of this monster effectively and it works because he has an anchor that he starts out with in the intro.

The movie might have worked has such an anchor - a vanishing point - existed, from all the accounts I am reading.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 06, 2020 08:32 PM (ejsiI)

107There's a sex scene with Rosario Dawson as Roxana that's full on female nudity and humping, though.

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I loved Gladiator though I have not seen it in years, and Troy was...OK. I don't know how you can have a telling of The Iliad without the gods, but...it was OK. I had serious problems with it, but it was entertaining.

Master and Commander put me to sleep. Eh. Maybe I should give it another chance at some point.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 06, 2020 08:34 PM (ejsiI)

114Patton is another biopic where they take just one section of his life. It works really well. It's Patton the warrior.

It needed an origin story so the audience could see him bitten by the radioactive tank.

Posted by: Joss Whedon at June 06, 2020 08:34 PM (2N7oZ)

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106 The movie might have worked has such an anchor - a vanishing point - existed, from all the accounts I am reading.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 06, 2020 08:32 PM (ejsiI)

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As much as I like Val Kilmer as Philip, I think the movie should have jettisoned everything before the Asian campaign and started with Alexander getting crowned as Pharaoh of Egypt with Darius still out there.

Then you could have brought in stuff about how Alexander is trying to become something mythical in scope and contrast the relative poverty of Egypt with the relative wealth of Persia. I think that contrast would have been an interesting place to start.

119As much as I like Val Kilmer as Philip, I think the movie should have jettisoned everything before the Asian campaign and started with Alexander getting crowned as Pharaoh of Egypt with Darius still out there.

But you would lose peak Angelina Jolie.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 06, 2020 08:36 PM (yQpMk)

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By the way, along the same lines as trying to tell the full story of Alexander in 2-3 hours...can anyone imagine doing that with, say, Churchill? Much better to do bits and pieces of that man's life. Darkest Hour takes place over the first 3-4 weeks of Churchill's time as prime minister and it lasted what, nearly 3 hours?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 06, 2020 08:36 PM (ejsiI)

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119 As much as I like Val Kilmer as Philip, I think the movie should have jettisoned everything before the Asian campaign and started with Alexander getting crowned as Pharaoh of Egypt with Darius still out there.

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111 Martin Campbell (Mask of Zorro) made the most successful reboot ever, Casino Royale. He previously directed Goldeneye, another great reboot of the same franchise.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 06, 2020 08:33 PM (LxTcq)

I love these movies, but I am really tired of rebooting. Do it once and then go with it. Stop re-imaging the characters. I'm griping about Bond and all the Spider-Man movies.

I think I saw two minutes of Alexander once on television. Thought it looked like garbage and changed channels.

Posted by: Robert at June 06, 2020 08:39 PM (xW4Id)

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Studios don't want to license out their good stuff to Netflix because they make more money off of selling it or renting it directly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower

Can you guess how I know when a 10 year old film bombed at the box office? When it's available on Netflix.

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Along the same lines as trying to tell the full story of Alexander in 2-3 hours...can anyone imagine doing that with, say, Churchill? Much better to do bits and pieces of that man's life. Darkest Hour takes place over the first 3-4 weeks of Churchill's time as prime minister and it lasted what, nearly 3 hours?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 06, 2020 08:36 PM (ejsiI)

There's a great movie about the early life and adventures of Winston Churchill called "Young Winston"

Posted by: Josephistan at June 06, 2020 08:42 PM (YI5pA)

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kallisto, what have you observed about the Phikky dems - what's the split?

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Whoever made the decision for her to play Olympias as a sexy Russian vampire was super high at the time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 06, 2020 08:36 PM (LvTSG)

I remember that being a big part of a negative review I read. Angelina was still kinda sketchy back then, hotter than fire but sketchy.

Posted by: Cheriebebe at June 06, 2020 08:44 PM (w6A0l)

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I sometimes like very bad movies. Movies that are trying so very very hard to be good, and yet, it's all for naught.
Same thing with music.
It makes me laugh, at least.

Posted by: navybrat, largely at large at June 06, 2020 08:44 PM (w7KSn)

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117 You guys watch movies WAY different from me. I just skim along with the story and enjoy the visuals.
It's so interesting to hear these other view points.
Posted by: Cheriebebe at June 06, 2020 08:35 PM (w6A0l)

I admit, I am not a big movie guy. I'm really not. But I do appreciate a good movie, and have been obsessed (OK, I have a lot of obsessions) with stories and storytelling since...ever.

So I love these different viewpoints, and the ability to share some of my own, which may or may not be agreed with.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 06, 2020 08:46 PM (ejsiI)

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>>Kevin McCarthy was the lead in the best B movie of all time, the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Didn't he have a cameo in one of the remakes?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 06, 2020 08:47 PM (vuisn)

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"It's got the stink of Zero and Mooch, and now the BLM mark is all over it, too."

You noticed too?

I would have stopped it but the missus still uses it, and I have decided it isn't the hill to die on.

Posted by: navybrat, largely at large at June 06, 2020 08:47 PM (w7KSn)

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141 vmom, see my 88. Johnny Doc doesn't agree with other Union leaders who have more radical plans for 'fixing the problem'.

Posted by: kallisto at June 06, 2020 08:48 PM (Rf71G)

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John Milius is great. Aside from Conan the Barbarian and Red Dawn, he also directed The Wind and the Lion (starring Sean Connery and a very yummy Candice Bergen) as well as Dillinger, an overlooked gangster flick with Warren Oates in the titled role, the great Ben Johnson as Melvin Purvis, and my favorite character actor Harry Dean Stanton as one of the nefarious crew.

Posted by: eastofsuez at June 06, 2020 08:48 PM (U2zca)

153I have to say that it was the Oliver Stone JFK movie, one of those movies I saw in the theater complete with overpriced popcorn, pop, and Milk Duds, that first got me to thinking there is an organized, funded movement that is willing to spend tens of millions of dollars to brainwash people with false information.

Could Oliver Stone have been an inspiration for George Soros, back in the day?

I was first introduced to the concept of organized groups propagandizing as a business, was the movie "Wag the Dog".

Surely it was nonsense, right?

Sorry, didn't mean to call you Shirley.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 06, 2020 08:49 PM (sy5kK)

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How can you not know the story to tell about Alexander? He's the man who conquered the world and wasn't satisfied. The climax comes when his army refuses to march any farther, and he declines into alcholism and dies. There, I wrote the damned movie.

Posted by: Trimegistus at June 06, 2020 08:49 PM (8QRdb)

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131 111 Martin Campbell (Mask of Zorro) made the most successful reboot ever, Casino Royale. He previously directed Goldeneye, another great reboot of the same franchise.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 06, 2020 08:33 PM (LxTcq)

I love these movies, but I am really tired of rebooting. Do it once and then go with it. Stop re-imaging the characters. I'm griping about Bond and all the Spider-Man movies.
Posted by: Cheriebebe at June 06, 2020 08:39 PM (w6A0l)

Um, how is GoldenEye a reboot? I see how Casino Royale was, but GoldenEye?

I'm with you on the obsession with remakes and reboots and so on. If a movie is to be remade, the wait time should be 50 years at least.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 06, 2020 08:49 PM (ejsiI)

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I've been watching a lot of movies 'cause the library's been closed since March 13th.

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I sometimes like very bad movies. Movies that are trying so very very hard to be good, and yet, it's all for naught.
Same thing with music.
It makes me laugh, at least.
Posted by: navybrat, largely at large at June 06, 2020 08:44 PM (w7KSn)

and this is How Mystery Science Theater 3000 was born.

Ed Wood, Bert I. Gordon, Coleman Francis, Roger Corman and so many others were convinced that they were making the Next American Classic.

these blokes earnestly made turrible movies, completely convinced they had made the next Lawrence of Arabia.

176I'd say every time a new Bond is introduced, it's a reboot. Goldeneye was Brosnan's first Bond, so it fits.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 06, 2020 08:50 PM (LvTSG)

Interesting way to look at it.

Maybe splitting hairs - maybe - but I'd consider GoldenEye a revival. Think about it. Not just introducing Mr. Brosnan as Bond, but the franchise had been dead for six years since the awful Mr. Dalton and Licence to Kill. Bond movies could no longer fall back on the Cold War as a theme - even the Soviet Union was dead and buried then. To successfully bring Bond back, they needed a damn good actor to revive him, and they needed to figure out how to have Bond movies in the brave new world after the Cold War.
I rather enjoyed GoldenEye, and it has one of the greatest lines EVER:
"Trust. What a quaint idea."

The movies are almost all stand-alone films. Seems moot.
Posted by: Robert at June 06, 2020 08:57 PM (xW4Id)

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Craig's are pretty interconnected. Connery's early films were pretty interconnected, though that fell away as the franchise moved on.

But, the main factor for me is that each actor is effectively a completely different character. Connery and Lazenby are very different. Connery and Moore are very different. Moore and Dalton are very different. Dalton and Brosnan are very different. Brosnan and Craig are very different.

I used to love those.
I forgot all about them.
Are they archived somewhere?
Posted by: navybrat, largely at large at June 06, 2020 08:53 PM (w7KSn)

Well. I have nearly every episode on DVD (some that I taped off the Comedy Central Channel two decades or so ago). There are a few that I have never seen, and are not available anywhere. Needless, to say, this tickles my MST OCD.

Also, Pluto TV has an MST channel. they play the same ones over and over again for a while, but they occasionally update, kind of on a monthly basis, it seems.

Posted by: navybrat, largely at large at June 06, 2020 09:00 PM (w7KSn)

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Well. I have nearly every episode on DVD (some that I taped off the Comedy Central Channel two decades or so ago). There are a few that I have never seen, and are not available anywhere. Needless, to say, this tickles my MST OCD.
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Back in the day I ordered "MST3K: Shorts" and you got a pair of undies along with the VHS tape! The "shorts" and "bloopers" reels were hilarious. I bet they're on YouTube.

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But, the main factor for me is that each actor is effectively a completely different character. Connery and Lazenby are very different. Connery and Moore are very different. Moore and Dalton are very different. Dalton and Brosnan are very different. Brosnan and Craig are very different.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 06, 2020 08:59 PM (LvTSG)

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I recently watched the "Mata Hari" miniseries on Roku.The chick was hot, and it really gave me a sense of the class structure that existed 110 years ago. It was a bit different (i.e non-Hollywood), and couldn't figure out why, until I found out it was a Russian-Portuguese production (WTF?). I recognized Gerard Depardieu in a small role.

As far as history, they took a large dollop of dramatic license with it, regarding her spying.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at June 06, 2020 09:06 PM (ufFY8)

215Bet Emperor Wolf will keep the area AMC's shut down until August or September.
Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2020 09:04 PM (6f16T)

No worries. AMC will likely be out of business (bankrupt) in another month or two.

All the original Saint TV episodes are available on Tubi, for free. I just finished watching them and they held up really well, very entertaining.

Posted by: Mr. Morango at June 06, 2020 09:18 PM (2N7oZ)

251The Kilmer version sucked monkey balls, and I like ole Val a lot. The Science chick, irl, can't boil water in a lab. Good casting choice there.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 06, 2020 09:16 PM (Z4rgH)

On redeemable thing: Elizabeth Shue was hot.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 06, 2020 09:18 PM (ejsiI)

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The Shout TV channel on Roku also has quite a few MST3K episodes. Many are also available on Youtube.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 06, 2020 09:16 PM (aKsyK)

Shout TV has a big BLM message on their site. F them.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 06, 2020 09:19 PM (fI5R4)

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I been out cutting brush off the property line and Ole Man Stihl done knocked all the starch outta me. Just got here and over 200 comments, so I'm veering off on sumpin else. I was looking back on today's threads and read JJ from this morning, what he said about not being able to just up and leave his home and family in NYC. The emotional part where he saw the Egyptian coffee cart guy almost made me cry. I confess to never having lived in New York and it has no appeal to me, but if I did live there I would fight just as hard for it as I intend to for Texas. We morons are the people who are tasked with saving America and civilization and that means all of us morons especially the ones who are behind enemy lines. They are heroes.

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On the topic of bad movies, I watched a Kim Novak movie, "The Legend of Lylah Clare". Kim Novak was hot as always, a lot of very slinky outfits, and for the first hour and 45 minutes it was actually pretty good, I was wondering why it had such a bad reputation. And then the last 15 minutes were just absolutely idiotic, so bad that they ruined everything that came before. Well, it was 1968, that was typical for a lot of movies of the era.

259I watched again last night, for the first time in years, Anatomy of a Murder.

It truly is an outstanding film, especially once the trial of Lt. Manion for killing Barney Quill gets underway. I thought the judge, played by Joseph Welch of Army-McCarthy Hearings fame, was the weakest of the cast, but I can rack a good part of that up to the dialogue with which he was provided and in which I detected not a little of the condescension toward Michigan's Upper Peninsula and its residents that infests folks from below the Mackinac Bridge.

Trivia: the sole surviving main cast member from this film is Kathryn Grant, who later married Bing Crosby. Andrew Breitbart's father-in-law, Orson Bean, was the most recent main cast member to pass on. She played Barney Quill's daughter and he played the Army psychiatrist for the defense.

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257 On the topic of bad movies, I watched a Kim Novak movie, "The Legend of Lylah Clare". Kim Novak was hot as always, a lot of very slinky outfits, and for the first hour and 45 minutes it was actually pretty good, I was wondering why it had such a bad reputation. And then the last 15 minutes were just absolutely idiotic, so bad that they ruined everything that came before. Well, it was 1968, that was typical for a lot of movies of the era.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2020 09:20 PM (V2Yro)

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I had only known Novak from Vertigo, and then I watched her in Kiss Me, Stupid.

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Hate Kingdom of Heaven. Portrays all the characters as largely non-religious. Portrays devout on each side as being crazy fanatics only. Even Bloom's character threat about destroying stuff was "All the things that drive men mad."

Fuck Ridley Scott.

Posted by: buzzion at June 06, 2020 09:22 PM (Z7lwY)

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All the original Saint TV episodes are available on
Tubi, for free. I just finished watching them and they held up really
well, very entertaining.

Posted by: Mr. Morango at June 06, 2020 09:18 PM (2N7oZ)

It's an entertaining series and Roger is good in the role. Fe TV runs it on the weekend

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 06, 2020 09:23 PM (fI5R4)

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How about "Agora"? It's on Amazon Prime right now. Very nicely done, but totally a-historical and takes the old schtick that Christianity ushered in the Dark Ages and prevented the Scientific Revolution from taking place a millennium early. It's weird how many laypeople believe that and how few historians do.

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Put me down as someone who prefers Hitchcock's remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much to his original. Jimmy Stewart is excellent, and Doris Day really could act. When Stewart informs her that their son has been kidnapped, it's one of the best husband and wife scenes Hitchcock ever filmed.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at June 06, 2020 09:25 PM (Q4TGw)

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266 207 Bet Emperor Wolf will keep the area AMC's shut down until August or September.

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2020 09:04 PM (6f16T)

Not like there are any movies being released yet anyways.
Posted by: buzzion at June 06, 2020 09:24 PM (Z7lwY)

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Chris Nolan is releasing Tenet in theaters no matter what.

Analysts (whoever they are) predict that 90% of theaters will be open by mid July, when Tenet comes to theaters.

The most recent trailer made a bit of a big deal about the theater thing.

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Also, Pluto TV has an MST channel. they play the same ones over and over again for a while, but they occasionally update, kind of on a monthly basis, it seems.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Got Bad Knees, so GFY

Comet and IFC on cable also run a few episodes each week. Comet has a very limited library and reruns the same ones. But, hey, EEgah!

But the paper hit is atrocious. Bible pages work better as rolling papers.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 06, 2020 09:30 PM (Z4rgH)

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>>>I'm trying to think of a genuinely BAD movie that I actually liked...

Showgirls. Guess why I like it.

Posted by: davidt at June 06, 2020 09:30 PM (l3+k2)

287272 Anyone else have a soft spot for Romy and Michele or is just me? I think it's a funny movie and I am pretty selective about comedy.
Posted by: ... at June 06, 2020 09:26 PM (gZ6M

I think it is hilarious, but Michelle's dream sequence was the weakest part of the story. For as much as she became a complete and obnoxious leftist shrew shortly afterward, Janine Garafalo was perfect as the bitingly sarcastic classmate.

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I liked Sanders better as the good guy in Foreign Correspondant. He has a likeable face.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at June 06, 2020 09:31 PM (Q4TGw)

290How about "Agora"? It's on Amazon Prime right now. Very nicely done, but totally a-historical and takes the old schtick that Christianity ushered in the Dark Ages and prevented the Scientific Revolution from taking place a millennium early. It's weird how many laypeople believe that and how few historians do.

295286 >>>I'm trying to think of a genuinely BAD movie that I actually liked...

Showgirls. Guess why I like it.

Posted by: davidt at June 06, 2020 09:30 PM (l3+k2)

Bound is better.

Posted by: buzzion at June 06, 2020 09:32 PM (Z7lwY)

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Haven't seen Alexander, and don't intend to. I take it that "the Indian battle" is the Malian siege, as Alexander wasn't wounded at Hydaspes. (Arrian's Alexander is one of the few land war books I really studied, along with other.)

I will give it this much: It's a good touch that Ptolemy is the narrator, as his lost history is the source for Arrian.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 06, 2020 09:33 PM (ZbwAu)

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Roku has a sci-fi channel, and during they play episodes of the short-lived Canadian detective/vampire thing called Blood Ties.

I only say this because the 2007 version of Christina Cox is extremely hot, especially when she wears her pr0n-librarian glasses.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at June 06, 2020 09:33 PM (ufFY8)

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I love how all of these guys are so clean-shaven like Neo in the Matrix Trilogy.

"My shaver has 6 blades, bitches!" said Alexander the Babyface.

Posted by: Fritz at June 06, 2020 09:33 PM (95j/9)

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I've been doing a Roy Scheider film festival lately. Just saw The Seven-Ups last night. This week I've also watched 52 Pickup, Sorcerer, and 2010. The French Connection is tonight, with Marathon Man on deck for tomorrow.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at June 06, 2020 09:34 PM (Q4TGw)

300296 Haven't seen Alexander, and don't intend to. I take it that "the Indian battle" is the Malian siege, as Alexander wasn't wounded at Hydaspes. (Arrian's Alexander is one of the few land war books I really studied, along with other.)

I will give it this much: It's a good touch that Ptolemy is the narrator, as his lost history is the source for Arrian.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 06, 2020 09:33 PM (ZbwAu)

All I know is from some other review I watched where he criticized it for taking place in a jungle. The "Indian" battles I believe took place in what is modern Pakistan, not jungles.

Posted by: buzzion at June 06, 2020 09:35 PM (Z7lwY)

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Anatomy of a Murder is a great flick. Lee Remick was so lovely it hurt, Jimmy Stewart was excellent, and George C. Scott was perfect as the hard-nosed "pro from dover" prosecutor from out of town.

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All I know is from some other review I watched where he criticized it for taking place in a jungle. The "Indian" battles I believe took place in what is modern Pakistan, not jungles.
Posted by: buzzion at June 06, 2020 09:35 PM (Z7lwY)

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Cause if there's one thing to complain about in Alexander, it's that they filmed the Indian battle (which is an amalgamation of a couple of battles) in a jungle.

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Buddy of mine in Florida worked on that Seaquest show that Roy Scheider was in. Said he was a total SOB to work with.
Then again, I probably couldn't blame the guy.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 06, 2020 09:37 PM (vuisn)

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I will fight anyone who thinks Troy was fine, great looking movie, screwed up the whole story.

Posted by: Mommyelf at June 06, 2020 09:37 PM (+fQnn)

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So I took a break from the thread to walk the dogs. I saw something that upset me and I don't know what to think.

Just down the block, a family has a son who is a local police officer. As I was walking by, he pulled his squad car in the driveway, as I've seen him do a thousand time before. He was opening the garage door when a small shit-box car pulled up to the curb and stopped. In the car were two white millenials fems and a young black male driver. The white passenger appeared to be texting information furiously about the address. The cop was staring at them wondering what was going on. As he approached the car it drove off.

I'm a little worried that the Antifas will be in the neighborhood tonight.

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Craig's Bond is probably the closest to Connery's..There was a rough, almost sadistic nature to Connery's Bond that Craig seems to possess as well.And a thrill of the chase.. both seem to get off on it..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 06, 2020 09:38 PM (CjFDo)

313I liked Sanders better as the good guy in Foreign Correspondant. He has a likeable face.
Posted by: Rusty Nail

You don't usually think of Edmund Gwenn as an assassin.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 06, 2020 09:38 PM (aKsyK)

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Oliver Stone has proven he can write very well and make a compelling movie, I just think he picked all the wrong things to focus on and tell the story about in his Alexander movie.

While probably it stands for everything he hates, he should have used the excellent novel Pressfield wrote (Virtues of War) as the outline for the story. It does such a good job covering a very long story very fast with the main important parts hit and a great theme of examining why Alexander and his troops were so effective and why it all stumbled and fell apart.

The first time I saw Platoon I was blow away. I know lots of vets hate the film. The thing is, I don't go to the theater for a history lesson.

My two biggest complaints about the film?

Turning Barnes into a cold blooded murderer. There is no true villain in the plot until the point when Barnes murders Elias. And by doing so Stone forces viewers to side with the antiwar Elias camp.

The other is a bit more subtle.

Stone divides the platoon into two groups: the cool kids camp and the dull white boy camp.

The cool kids are all purple heart recipients, they've a cool, semi dark clubhouse with christmas lights, soul music and Grace Slick and hammocks and reefer.

The dullards live in a stuffy, sweaty, brightly lit tent-room sleeping on hard cots, drinking warm Bud and listening to country music (and one guy has tiny religious altar).

One of the best scenes in film history is when a very drunk Barnes stumbles into the "heads" clubhouse and waxes insolent.

Drop the Barnes murder and the film gets more interesting. Even half the black dudes know that following Barnes is their best chance at survival.

Posted by: 13times at June 06, 2020 09:38 PM (K3B2k)

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275 I'm trying to think of a genuinely BAD movie that I actually liked...

Posted by: mnw at June 06, 2020 09:27 PM (Cssks)

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I liked The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which I'm reliable told is a bad movie.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 06, 2020 09:39 PM (CAJOC)

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Stone has a show on netflix, the real history of the world or some such horseshit. He puts Alex Jones to shame as far as out there conspiracies. Oh, and I watched the show Conspiracies too. What a laugh. My alien brothers are safe.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at June 06, 2020 09:39 PM (iymtC)

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308 Buddy of mine in Florida worked on that Seaquest show that Roy Scheider was in. Said he was a total SOB to work with.
Then again, I probably couldn't blame the guy.
Posted by: Dr. Varno

I loved that show. Scheider was great in that role. I really wish they hadn't jacked it up with the really out there sci-fi.

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314 Oliver Stone has proven he can write very well and make a compelling movie, I just think he picked all the wrong things to focus on and tell the story about in his Alexander movie.

While probably it stands for everything he hates, he should have used the excellent novel Pressfield wrote (Virtues of War) as the outline for the story. It does such a good job covering a very long story very fast with the main important parts hit and a great theme of examining why Alexander and his troops were so effective and why it all stumbled and fell apart.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 06, 2020 09:38 PM (KZzsI)

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I think a 3 hour movie about the Asian campaign could have been great, but trying to capture so much of Alexander's childhood and pointing arrows between events in the two timelines was both too simplistic and too much at the same time.

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TJM, thank you for your literate, incisive review of Alexander. I enjoy reading good criticism and yours is always top drawer.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 06, 2020 09:40 PM (kVr0X)

326298 I love how all of these guys are so clean-shaven like Neo in the Matrix Trilogy.

"My shaver has 6 blades, bitches!" said Alexander the Babyface.

Posted by: Fritz at June 06, 2020 09:33 PM (95j/9)

The Alexander mosaic in Pompeii is him clean shaven with rockin' sideburns. Almost every single antiquity image of him you can find is clean shaven. Perhaps meant to indicate his youth and early death?

Posted by: buzzion at June 06, 2020 09:40 PM (Z7lwY)

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I found Troy really dull and slow, which is incredible given the tale. I think leaving out the gods made it stale.

The big chase scene for that was filmed in my old neighborhood. It's so funny to watch if you know the area because they used one stretch of 96th Street, between Amsterdam Ave. and Broadway and filmed it from about six different angles. So, it looks like the chase goes on for a mile, but they never get off the one block.

One of my favorite "Bad Movies" is The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) Probably one of the most racist movies I can think of, full of talk about how the white Europeans are all naturally superior to the devolved orientals. Bad acting too, EXCEPT for the two Big Stars who got roped into this, Boris Karloff and Myrna Loy, playing Fu Manchu and his sex starved evil daughter. This is Myrna Loy's sexiest, steamiest movie by FAR and it's worth watching just for that.

So what makes it fun is those two seem to have recognized it was an awful script, and they look like they're having a competition with each other to see who can overact the most outrageously in each scene they're in. It's like they're winking at each other and saying "hey, get a load of this!" And when you key into that aspect of this movie, it gets absolutely hilarious.

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All I know is from some other review I watched where he criticized it for taking place in a jungle. The "Indian" battles I believe took place in what is modern Pakistan, not jungles.
Posted by: buzzion at June 06, 2020 09:35 PM (Z7lwY)

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Cause if there's one thing to complain about in Alexander, it's that they filmed the Indian battle (which is an amalgamation of a couple of battles) in a jungle.

Oh he criticized more than that. About the only thing he seemed happy about was that they took the "brave" position of portraying Alexander as bisexual and how dare that potentially damage its box office receipts.

https://youtu.be/DzHQuAz0N60

Posted by: buzzion at June 06, 2020 09:44 PM (Z7lwY)

342I did not get the tag, but we have a very
healthy Ring doorbell community here. Why, we've even got a bobcat in
the neighborhood!

Posted by: Blutarski

.........Ring is worthless for that kind of stuff..Most people have scrunched the viewing area to just right in fron of their door so as not to be bothered every time a car goes down the street.It doesn't pick up license plates anyway.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 06, 2020 09:44 PM (CjFDo)

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>>>I liked The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which I'm reliable told is a bad movie.

The movie that forced Connery into retirement.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 06, 2020 09:44 PM (vuisn)

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I did not get the tag, but we have a very healthy
Ring doorbell community here. Why, we've even got a bobcat in the
neighborhood!

Posted by: Blutarski at June 06, 2020 09:42 PM (VNfwt)

Might as well use Big Brother to your advantage. The cops probably have a deal with Amazon to request images from the cameras. Might want to talk with the cop and let him know they can find out who it is.

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Blutarski. From WZ. Cop followed home. IPad not letting me Bitly or tinyurl. Go to Weasel Zippers and scroll down a bit.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 06, 2020 09:47 PM (JVgnl)

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I watched again last night, for the first time in years, Anatomy of a Murder.
It truly is an outstanding film.....

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 06, 2020 09:21 PM (pNxlR)
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Several years ago on a family vacation, we were staying in a mountain cabin that had a VCR and a bunch of tapes. Two of the movies we watched were Anatomy of a Murder and The Days of Wine and Roses. We saw DWR first.

After seeing AofM a day later, a couple of my kids didn't believe it was the same actress as in DWR. And it's not as if the make-up/costuming/hair was so different.

Lee Remick was very good.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 06, 2020 09:47 PM (M/9m0)

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I just went there and started watching a MST3K ep and got no such message.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 06, 2020 09:40 PM (aKsyK)

It's there when I go there. They are fighting the scourge of racism and will donate a portion of this month's sales to organizations fighting social injustice and inequality. It's on the top half of the page. If you scroll through the 10 slides that's one of them

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 06, 2020 09:47 PM (fI5R4)

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If that cop is at all competent, he got that license plate number.

350I'm a little worried that the Antifas will be in the neighborhood tonight.

Posted by: Blutarski at June 06, 2020 09:37 PM

I've got two cops here, equidistant three houses down in each direction from my house. And I've got a Gadsen flag on the pole out front below the U.S. flag. Why yes, there are multiple firearms in access, lol.

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>>>I'm trying to think of a genuinely BAD movie that I actually liked..<<<

The English Patient

Dear G_d, forgive me.

Posted by: Fritz at June 06, 2020 09:52 PM (95j/9)

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Braveheart was an awesome movie, and if any of you morons haven't seen it, you must seek it out.

I credit that one movie with sparking a consuming interest in me for English history, then European history, then Roman history, then Greece and Persia, Egypt, ad infinitum. Hundreds of books later the development of Western civilization is still one of my main reading time passions. It was that silly movie that started it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 06, 2020 09:52 PM (kVr0X)

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I did enjoy Walk Hard quite a bit, though. John C Reilly is consistently entertaining and he was great in that role.

I liked The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which I'm reliable told is a bad movie

I liked it okay but compared to the graphic novel its based on its weak.

365I've always seen Platoon as the comic book version of the Vietnam War, not serious cinema.

Its entertaining but like almost all of Stone's work, too heavy handed to make the point. There's a book out there called Brennan's War I would love to see done as a series Band of Brothers style. Vietnam from the POV of a Forward Observer for artillery, for multiple years of service. Early in the war to late, how the soldiers and culture, attitudes etc changed.

366The first time I saw Platoon I was blow away. I know lots of vets hate the film. The thing is, I don't go to the theater for a history lesson.

Everyone is too old for the roles.

Oliver Stone getting blown up was the highlight of the movie.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 06, 2020 09:56 PM (yQpMk)

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I have no idea but I always took the use of the phrase "pros from Dover" as a dark reference to the fact that Dover AFB is the largest military mortuary and the Doctors there don't exactly work with live subjects.

I only saw the phrase "pros from Dover" in the novel "M*A*S*H." Hawkeye and Trapper were summoned to Japan on an emergency case. They brought their golf clubs along to use the base's course.

Posted by: Weak Geek at June 06, 2020 11:16 PM (u/nim)

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Fuqua's Arthur is one of my favorite movies of all time. The weaponry was fearsome and it showed how each battle-hardened warrior had his individual style and gear. The scene on the ice was incredible. It was a fascinating time in history and each character was nicely developed.

I watched Oliver Stone's JFK YESTERDAY on a whim for the first time ever, then realized I had seen other Stone flicks like a decade ago.

Afterwards I read a bit about Alexander and a few other Stone projects and moved on.

I've only been back on AOS for about a week after years and years of absence.

This being the 3rd or 4th day that I'm reading every post more or less.

So within only the span of about 2 days, I read about Alexander and Oliver Stone and then a long post about Oliver Stone pops up on the ONLY blog I read about a movie I was specifically curious about.

Some folks say they don't believe in coincidence but I don't know what meaning to take away from things like this. Happens in my life all the time. Weekly if not daily.

I genuinely don't see how it could be a misperception ego thing. I don't read about more than a topic or two in a day.

Things like this are strange to me. I know no one will really care but I am curious on people's feelings on coincidences in general.

Posted by: Rorschach at June 06, 2020 11:57 PM (gqvXZ)

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Things like this are strange to me. I know no one will really care but I am curious on people's feelings on coincidences in general.
Posted by: Rorschach at June 06, 2020 11:57 PM (gqvXZ)

I was just thinking of the Police song "Synchronicity".

but the fact that the Impeachment scam started as soon as the Mueller scam fell apart, and then the Wuhan Scare started just as impeachment fell apart, and then the Passion of St. George started just as the WuFlu scare fell apart - yeah, that really is all just one big coincidence.

okay, a long continuing series of incredibly well timed coincidences. Nothing to see here, move along, folks.

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So James, you and I are about the same age and both apparently AOS addicts. Your taste in cinema is maybe about the worst it can be. I want to agree with your fever dreams of what film should be but I just can't do it. Stop overthinking everything and wanting to be like the "real" critics with your head stuck up your ass and just go with your gut. Like it or not it doesn't take much to figure out.

Indeed... but this one is apropos at the moment... "I stand, yes I do, for the Christ-killin' Jew..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMPmimxDTsQ

--

Let's Duet....I was playing the soundtrack one day while my mother-in-law was visiting. She's from Texas, so she was grooving. But when she heard the opening lyric ("In my dreams you're blowin' me......some kisses), she just about had a heart attack.

Posted by: Democrat Governor at June 07, 2020 02:03 AM (HEiLh)

Saturday Afternoon Chess thread 06-06-2020

GM Judit Polgár (HUN)

TheJamesMadison will be along later with the movie thread. As always, the chess/dress pr0n thread is an open thread, so there is no such thing as an off-topic comment.

Beginner Problem - White To Play (127)

Goal: White can force mate in 3 moves
Hint: Do not forget the bishop on c4

This has to come first to protect g5 (it also threatens mate) Not 1...Rxc1 2.Qxg5+ (2.Rxc1 Qxc1+) 2... Kh8 3.Rxc1 and the win goes poof.

2.fxe4

Pretty much forced. And now it is safe to simplify:

2...Qxc1
3.Rxc1 Rxc1+
4.Kf2 f6 and wins

Hope to see you all next week!

___________

Note: that cryptic line of letters and numbers you see underneath each board diagram is a representation of the position in what is known as "Forsyth-Edwards Notation", or F.E.N. It's actually readable by humans. Most computer applications nowadays can read FEN, so those of you who may want to study the position, you can copy the line of FEN and paste into your chess app and it should automatically recreate the position on its display board. Or, Windows users can just "triple click" on it and the entire line will be highlighted so you can copy and paste it into your chess app.

___________

So that about wraps it up for this week. Chess thread tips, suggestions, bribes, rumors, threats, and insults may be sent to my yahoo address: OregonMuse little-a-in-a-circle yahoo dott com.

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19 A guy in a Smart Car blew past me and one other car on the highway just a little while ago.
Something about it made me laugh. He must be a frugal thrill seeker.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at June 06, 2020 05:30 PM (0xU82)

He must have gotten the hamster some five star Meth.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 06, 2020 05:31 PM (A5zUN)

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I'm still in the "Gone With The Wind" era of women' s dresses.Women sure carried around a lot of linen, must of been real heavy when you got wet in the rain. But of course any fine women would have Rhett to carry them through the puddles.

Two years back I found a shorthaired black stray cat in my parking lot at home. He was sick -- he looked like he had the superflu. I managed to get him into a carrier and brought him as a "found" animal to the SPCA. They tried heroically to bring him back to health, but he was FeLV positive and very weak, and after 5 weeks they had to put him to sleep.

They'd asked me to name him, and so I said "Paladin": He wore black, and was a knight without armor in a savage land.

At least I gave him 5 weeks of comfortable life, regular meals, and not having to dodge cars or coyotes. If there is a credit register in the Hereafter, St.Peter, please make a note of this to counterbalance some other stupid things I've done. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 06, 2020 05:32 PM (rpbg1)

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13 Tom Winter@Tom_Winter
NBC News: The suspect in Wednesday night's stabbing of a NYPD officer in Brooklyn was recorded saying "Allahu Akbar" 3 times during the incident, the NYPD says.

But they're urging caution in assigning an ideology or specific motive based on what they've found so far in the case.

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Intermediate problem appears to be a re-run. Beginner was tricky ... took me ages.

Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 06, 2020 05:34 PM (AHq56)

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The lady in the first dress forgot to wear her corset. It kills the historic look of the dress.

For most women, corsets were worn not to make the waist a lot smaller necessarily but to change the shape of the waist. Instead of being an oval shape (seen in cross section from above) which makes the waist look wider, the corseted waist is a round shape which makes the waist look narrower. It was a very flattering look that even portly women could achieve with the right underpinnings.

BTW I look forward to seeing the dresses every week. Thank you!

Posted by: Nancy B. at June 06, 2020 05:34 PM (h7GHl)

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Helos are up AGAIN in lower Manhattan: after 2 nights of thunderstorms, the mobs are back. They're not letting up, people. What is their endgame?

Posted by: Beverly at June 06, 2020 05:35 PM (+0Ebw)

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I bought a hummingbird feeder and when I put it up a few days ago I couldn't find an S hook to save my soul. Several junk drawers and the tool box yielded nothing so I improvised and used paper clip. I just went to change the food.. there's an S hook attached to the inside lid. DOH!

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When I see that picture of Judit Polgar I see a smiling chess assassin.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy

No kidding.
A smile like that tells me she knows she's gonna have fun. With the chess too.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2020 05:35 PM (axyOa)

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32 Blonde woman in pretty long blue dress has an expression on her face that makes her seem like she's going to her execution.

I like the House of Worth 1880's purple and white dresses.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 06, 2020 05:33 PM (+eVzC)

Kind of looks like she is contemplating a date with Adam Schiff.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 06, 2020 05:36 PM (A5zUN)

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Roberts' swing vote to uphold disparate treatment of churches in the CA Virus Shutdown was craven. I put it to Roberts' foolish attempt to make SCOTUS look like it's above politics, the Constitution be damned.

Roberts' vote looks worse still, now that the Virus Shutdown has been exposed as bureaucratic totalitarian overkill as the distancing rules get ignored for mass protests, but enforced for masses.

Semi-related... it's being floated (not sure by who, but it might be Markle's PR flacks) that when Meghan and Katherine had their supposedly huge fight during the dress fitting for the former's wedding, it was because...

Kate wanted the girls to wear tights with their dresses, and Meghan thought that was ridiculous.

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God bless you, Wolfus....did you post this story a couple years ago when this happened? Seemed like some other person posted a story of a little kitty that he took care of and didn't make it....Anyway, .at least he knew he was loved in his last weeks.....

Now it's reallllly dusty in here....

Posted by: misslurk'ette at June 06, 2020 05:37 PM (GDpRb)

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>>> 34 How responsible of Kate to recycle an 80's prom dress!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 06, 2020 05:34 PM (Dc2NZ)

Clearly you never saw *my* 80's prom dress...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 06, 2020 05:38 PM (0ReGO)

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So I just got back from watching the Michael Park documentary, "In his own words" on Clarence Thomas. It was very good. My son went with me. It was nice of my friend to tape it because she's a liberal-not leftist-but I don't think that she's an admirer of Clarence Thomas.

Joe Biden was a smirking jerk even back then.

Kieran asked me if someone put Anita Hill up to lying about Thomas. I said I'm sure of it, but I don't know what she got out of it. Interesting how they tried to same approach with Kavanaugh.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 06, 2020 05:38 PM (+eVzC)

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re 37: revolution. this time the workers will rise up and overthrow the system, etc etc

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A few weeks ago I decided to start wearing a corset. I still do not own a corset. Of course, last week I decided I wanted to wear a beehive hairdo. Then I got my hair cut short without ever wearing a beehive hairdo.
I'm fickle like that.

Too near here six cars in a carport and the apt above were destroyed by fire last night. Mechanical failure? Have seen in past. Neighbor grudge arson under the cover of riot? Local said under investigation. Van Nuys, CA near walmart.

Otherwise, krak's burning dumpster of a fuck you to morons behind enemy lines this morning.

Posted by: banned on the street at June 06, 2020 05:40 PM (8AuSd)

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Watching TV news is like watching a minstral show that is lionizing a career criminal.

And now apparently it is forbiden to take issue with BLM and you cn and will lose your job over it.

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Speaking of Ferguson.....that fuckwit Neil Ferguson whose bullshit model caused much of the Wuhan panic needs to face some consequences. He won't of course, but he needs to.

Posted by: Not Amused at June 06, 2020 05:43 PM (AJ2LA)

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IIRC there was little to Anita Hill's allegations. He was hitting on her some but then he backed off. He made some minor off color jokes. She followed him to a new job. That's it

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 06, 2020 05:43 PM (9TdxA)

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Surely at least a few Dems must see that if Biden is elected someone other than he will be pulling the strings and making policy decisions--and that it will be someone other than whoever is chosen to be VP. Don't they and anyone in the media have any curiosity who that string puller running the country would be?

Posted by: corn and beans at June 06, 2020 05:43 PM (tkNkP)

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Joan Blondel was great as Ladyfingers in the movie The Cincinnati Kid.

If anyone who has seen and likes that movie is interested, I have a spoiler-type challenge/question about it.

Posted by: davidt at June 06, 2020 05:44 PM (l3+k2)

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And now apparently it is forbiden to take issue with BLM and you cn and will lose your job over it.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 05:40 PM (85Gof)

That's what I hate about sports reporters questioning athletes about BLM. There's only one acceptable answer allowed. You can't even give a nuanced acceptable answer.
So why ask?

80God bless you, Wolfus....did you post this story a couple years ago when this happened? Seemed like some other person posted a story of a little kitty that he took care of and didn't make it....Anyway, .at least he knew he was loved in his last weeks.....

Now it's reallllly dusty in here....
Posted by: misslurk'ette at June 06, 2020

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I might have posted it back then; I don't recall. It's just that the Pet Thread is active for such a short time. Plus, two years ago, I didn't have home Internet, and I rarely posted on the Pet Thread at all. Anyway, thanks for remembering.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 06, 2020 05:44 PM (rpbg1)

81
Ferguson was the first big lie to start this and they still push St Michael Brown.

82
Michelle Malkin, fresh off her twitter ban, says we're going to wake up on November 4th shocked to see that Trump lost. She claims he's ceded his domestic presidency to Jared Kushner.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 06, 2020 05:44 PM (H8QX8)

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Watching TV news is like watching a minstral show that is lionizing a career criminal.

And now apparently it is forbiden to take issue with BLM and you cn and will lose your job over it.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 05:40 PM (85Gof)

Future generations will point and laugh at and study this folly. Just like we did at McCarthyism and questioning how Germans allowed their Jewish neighbors to be murdered and how North Koreans and communist Chinese could allow themselves to be enslaved to the state group think.

Apparently its all too easy when the media is complicit.

Posted by: LASue at June 06, 2020 05:45 PM (Ed8Zd)

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And now apparently it is forbiden to take issue with BLM and you cn and will lose your job over it.

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>>> 76 Surely at least a few Dems must see that if Biden is elected someone other than he will be pulling the strings and making policy decisions--and that it will be someone other than whoever is chosen to be VP. Don't they and anyone in the media have any curiosity who that string puller running the country would be?
Posted by: corn and beans at June 06, 2020 05:43 PM (tkNkP)

They probably already have guesses and approve of them all.

NGU, I'm just... typing and deleting.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 06, 2020 05:45 PM (0ReGO)

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re 75: Thomas denied ever asking her out. She might have made it all up.

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That's what I hate about sports reporters questioning athletes about BLM. There's only one acceptable answer allowed. You can't even give a nuanced acceptable answer.
So why ask?
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at June 06, 2020 05:44 PM (0xU82)

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Why? Because sports reporters are as leftwing as regular news reporters and they want everyone to bend their knee (literally). The question isn't what do you think of BLM. The question is really, do you dare not praise your enemies?

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And now apparently it is forbiden to take issue with BLM and you cn and will lose your job over it.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 05:40 PM (85Gof)

That's what I hate about sports reporters questioning athletes about BLM. There's only one acceptable answer allowed. You can't even give a nuanced acceptable answer.
So why ask?
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at June 06, 2020 05:44 PM (0xU82)

Actually I was talking about a school guard who did not agree with the party line

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 05:47 PM (85Gof)

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>>> 91 That's what I hate about sports reporters questioning athletes about BLM. There's only one acceptable answer allowed. You can't even give a nuanced acceptable answer.
So why ask?
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at June 06, 2020 05:44 PM (0xU82)

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Why? Because sports reporters are as leftwing as regular news reporters and they want everyone to bend their knee (literally). The question isn't what do you think of BLM. The question is really, do you dare not praise your enemies?
Posted by: Not Amused at June 06, 2020 05:46 PM (AJ2LA)

Don't be the first to stop clapping, comrade.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 06, 2020 05:47 PM (0ReGO)

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I got this in an e-mail. It's from the Family Research Council about suggestions for prayer during civil unrest. I thought the points were good ones:

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And now apparently it is forbiden to take issue with BLM and you cn and will lose your job over it.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 05:40 PM (85Gof)

That's what I hate about sports reporters questioning athletes about BLM. There's only one acceptable answer allowed. You can't even give a nuanced acceptable answer.
So why ask?
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just a

Nor can you refuse to care. A non-answer is as bad as the wrong answer to this mob.

Unless you're Dennis Rodman, who sat behind my hubby on the flight to LA yesterday and thankfully was one of the few NOT wearing a stupid mask.

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Jewells45 I'm sure you know this, but the sugar water nectar needs to be changed out every several days in hot weather. It will spoil and mildew, this is deadly to them. I fill mine maybe 1/2 or 1/3 full. Wash carefully and sanitize, rinse etc. Jus sayin'.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 06, 2020 05:49 PM (B6WO/)

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If Biden gets elected, peace be unto him, Ron Klain will be his chief of staff. I don't know who will pull Klain's strings but can guess.

Klain was Obama's Ebola Czar for a hot minute to deflect from what should have been a huge scandal.

Neighbors did this for the old neighborhood fighter cat who recently passed. Had a crate out of the rain with heating pad. Couldnt take inside, other cats. But made him comfy. He used to know when I was grilling, would toss him small warm bits to gum, very few teeth.

Posted by: banned and teh critters at June 06, 2020 05:49 PM (8AuSd)

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Putting the National Guard in harm's way without weapons or helmets . . .

Are they expecting an incident where NG troopers get attacked by the mob?

Amazing the power they've secured and now wield, increasingly brazenly, totally unafraid of any cost to them. They believe this is their moment. I understand their confidence. The resistance is fitful and feeble, unsure of itself, careful not to offend.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 06, 2020 05:51 PM (H8QX8)

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I'm expecting the looting community to try to storm the White House tonight
Posted by: Josephistan at June 06, 2020 05:49 PM (YI5pA)

I tend to agree about this, and I'm not worried about Jared Kushner or anyone else in the immediate family. What ha, concerns!! me is, how many states will pull mandatory mail-in voting out of their asses.

And the white Q can't move. Black just queens the a pawn, first moving his rookto c3 where the white K can't get at the passed pawns ... or he could win a bit fasterqueening the b pawn but that would be more work on my part.

Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 06, 2020 05:52 PM (AHq56)

116 I'm expecting the looting community to try to storm the White House tonight
Posted by: Josephistan at June 06, 2020 05:49 PM

He needs to be out of a job now. It's beyond obvious he's working against the president

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 06, 2020 05:55 PM (W/gIX)

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67. Esper knows full well that LE guarding the WH were hit with pavers and sent to the hospital with concussions. And the disarming part speaks for itself. Helmets are basic PPE. Esper wants NG troops to get hurt and/or die. Well at least the mutt is showing his ass in spectacular bonobo fashion.

Posted by: kallisto at June 06, 2020 05:55 PM (jtqoO)

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Question -- has anybody in the Nacogdoches area dealt with Brazos Transit? Looks like we may have to have some major work on the car, and if we can't get a loaner, I'll need something for shopping.

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If they came for the statues, they'll come for confederate apparel from museums.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 06, 2020 05:56 PM (wiXsO)

126115 Advanced Problem.1. ... Qxc12. Rxc1 Rxc1+3. K any Nxg44. fxg4 f6And the white Q can't move. Black just queens the a pawn, first moving his rookto c3 where the white K can't get at the passed pawns ... or he could win a bit fasterqueening the b pawn but that would be more work on my part.Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 06, 2020 05:52 PM (AHq56)

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The White House is being targeted for capture and destruction because it's one on the few buildings black people built. If Trump allows the White House to fall or be occupied, which s floating around as a way to own the libs, the War against this Maoist Cultural Revolution taking place will be lost.... if it's not already. DC has already fallen btw.

Posted by: Gov. Stretchin Gretchen at June 06, 2020 05:56 PM (v8OxE)

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52---Kieran asked me if someone put Anita Hill up to lying about Thomas. I said I'm sure of it, but I don't know what she got out of it.....
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 06, 2020 05:38 PM (+eVzC)
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What did she get out of it? Thunderous applause, a fat tenured position, book sales, speaking engagement$, and a place in the pantheon of left-wing saints. She has cashed in yuuuugely.

Go to the Museum of African American History in DC. You will see an exhibit on the great Anita Hill --- but no other mention of Clarence Thomas.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Friday that two elite lawyers accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail into a New York Police Department vehicle last weekend should not receive bail and must return to jail.

**Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman

Posted by: Adriane the Music History Critic ... at June 06, 2020 05:58 PM (LPnfS)

I think she got thunderous applause and support, but I don't expect her tenured position came immediately. It would hard for her not to get tenure. She is a black woman.

I find it difficult to think of Clarence Thomas-from what I know of his background to ever say stuff about "pubic hair on a coke can."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 06, 2020 06:01 PM (+eVzC)

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How da fuk did this Esperbutt get to be secdef?
Posted by: vmom 2020 at June 06, 2020 06:00 PM (WwTwF)

Trump nominated him?

Posted by: Vanya at June 06, 2020 06:02 PM (BAsqb)

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The White House is being targeted for capture and destruction because it's one on the few buildings black people built. If Trump allows the White House to fall or be occupied, which s floating around as a way to own the libs, the War against this Maoist Cultural Revolution taking place will be lost.... if it's not already. DC has already fallen btw.
Posted by: Gov. Stretchin Gretchen

Her logic, based on her rhetorically militant view of the Left in modern history, is that Trump has forsaken his posture of non-negotiable anti-establishment patriotism when it came to seditious threats to the Constitution (posited over and over in his campaign) with a Kushner-influenced imperative to unifying America through compromise and deal-making (which she ascribes to the same fatal delusions long held by the GOPe). Malkin is an uncompromising warrior, and believes Trump won because he presented himself as one too. She's disappointed in his performance in this crucial moment.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 06, 2020 06:03 PM (H8QX8)

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Common Tater, yes I have already changed it 3 times as it is so very hot here. Every evening. I just bought it. Didn't want to make it sound like I was just letting it sit. I changed it twice before I saw the stupid S hook!

160OK... I won't dispute that the reverse of the St. Gaudens Double Eagle is the most beautiful American coin design. But I'm going against informed opinion and saying that the obverse of the Walking Liberty Half Dollar by his protege Weinman is better. Also, while St. Gaudens' Liberty is a dignified lady, Weinman lets you know she can be a dirty girl, too.

I'll also say, if I take their works on balance (Double Eagle and Indian Head Eagle vs the WL Half and the Mercury Dime), I think Weinman was the more talented of the two at coin design.

That blue dress and her expression reminds me of a Vestal Virgin who is about to be interred for misbehavior.

In my world, a smile and a happy outlook cover many fashion and body issues. That is much hotter to me than the usual male standard.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 06, 2020 06:07 PM (u82oZ)

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And what I particularly enjoyed in the film about Clarence Thomas was the reflections on his faith. His wife said that when he came forward after the revelations about Anita Thomas were leaked they had some friends in a prayer group come over and they were praying he put on the full armor of God

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There are many fake Joan Blondell pics on the net;
however, her hands and arms in this picture cause me to think a couple of those are real.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 06, 2020 06:09 PM (Fk2WS)

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Hubby had the local news on for 8 minutes, even he couldn't take more then that.
George Floyd then Covid then Floyd then Covid then Floyd & Covid, you get the idea. They did talk about the weather for 20 seconds. Grrrrrrrrr, when will it end?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 06, 2020 06:10 PM (JVgnl)

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Proving that our First Amendment right is largely ornamental and has no basis in reality in today's new world order.

Posted by: washrivergal at June 06, 2020 06:06 PM (UAOfD)

It's becoming a "parchment right," as the rights were in the Soviet Constitution.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 06, 2020 06:10 PM (H8QX8)

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Wasn't an appellate court supposed to smack the shit out of "Judge" Sullivan some point soon?

Posted by: Getcha Pull at June 06, 2020 06:10 PM (aR6C/)

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If the left is giving up on Hispanics and Latinos in general, that's practically a gift to the GOP IMHO.

After "peaceful" protestors ransacked downtown Naperville IL and threw an explosive at police the next day the nitwits were putting BLM signs over the smashed out store fronts to show how down with the cause they are. And to further prove their stupidity they marched for the rest of the week shutting down the downtown area so the businesses have not been able to open. I was hoping the barbarians would have shown up at one of the Karens rallies

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 06, 2020 06:12 PM (W/gIX)

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140 . vmom I agree. That is a beautifully staged and styled photo.

Posted by: kallisto at June 06, 2020 06:12 PM (jtqoO)

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Won't it be amusing if by the time fall rolls around everything is back to normal and masks and social distancing are a thing of the past and all major sporting events have been cancelled because greedy, elite athletes were unwillinig to give salary or be "exposed".They've already cancelled the Boston Marathon which had been postponed to September.

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3 Good grief. I was first. I'm never first.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at June 06, 2020 05:23 PM (0xU82)
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Inadvertent first is the best first.

Posted by: Weasel at June 06, 2020 06:14 PM (MVjcR)

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179
Won't it be amusing if by the time fall rolls around everything is back
to normal and masks and social distancing are a thing of the past and
all major sporting events have been cancelled because greedy, elite
athletes were unwillinig to give salary or be "exposed".They've already
cancelled the Boston Marathon which had been postponed to September.

++++I sure hope the heck that I am amused in the fall. About anything.

Posted by: washrivergal at June 06, 2020 06:14 PM (UAOfD)

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So King Lockdown, Gov. Charlie Baker (RINO-MA) has announced "Phase 2" of his 4-phase "re-opening Massachusetts" plan, started 3-weeks ago.

Among the highlights of this ludicrously timid plan, day care centers can re-open, but day-program services for adults must wait at least another 3-weeks for "Phase 3". The net for me is that my son (22-year old autistic adult living in a group home) is at least 3-weeks away from getting back to his day program (which he enjoyed) - and I'm at least 3-weeks away from being able to see him again in person.

And yet, Charlie Lockdown is completely insulated because he's a leftist NeverTrump "Republican" and the Massachusetts legislature is among the more corrupt, useless, and gutless legislative bodies in the country.

I am so fucking furious at this point that I'm gonna start breaking shit if I can't get my heart rate down soon.

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I don't know about the alienating Hispanics thing. BLM is basically fuck white people. And while not all Hispanics feel that way, enough do that this will not make then less receptive to the Dem message.

Remember the Dems have built a coalition of disparate groups whose goal is to take shit from those who have and give it to them, and stoke racial grievances. As long as Dems keep promising amnesty, free this and free that to Hispanics, they'll happily vote Dem regardless of what they do for BLM.

Posted by: Not Amused at June 06, 2020 06:15 PM (AJ2LA)

189
Who was the Seattle running back who refused to talk to the media a few years ago?

He may have the brain of a fly, but that is how you talk to the media in today's environment.

193
In 2016, election coverage was 24/7 from January through November.

But now? It's like it's not happening.

The gaslighters are trying to pretend in some ways that there is no election because they don't want people to realize that everything they see and hear is in fact targeted election propaganda.

In some ways I think they don't want to he caught with millions of hours all their bullshit predictions and polling when Trump wins again. But I think it's more that they know it didn't work last time so they're going with a different angle - bad news and CHAOS all the time.

Or poco hermano, I think poco means little bit
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 06, 2020 06:13 PM (7bcfy)
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I looked it up and pico hijo translated as "peak son" or something. I would have bet you a nickel it was little brother or close to it. WeaselWoman was quick to correct me, as usual.

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And the other thing... business has been shit. No shows..not sure what Fall will bring but it's usually when I sock away everything from those to be able to make my annual trip to see my daughter. The shop is.. blech.. if not for you kind folk I would have zero sales the past 2 months. For real.

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I avoid all so called "news". I can't control the stupidity of the asswipes in the world. BTM, MFM, looters, thugs, sellouts, and just pure ol' scum. They are all just trash I don't want to waste my time with.

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197 oh OK, I get it. Now it's *all* SM. Alright, I'll play. Do you honestly think that any scared mommy on FB, IG, ND or what the fuck ever - is going to share their true feelings in this charged atmosphere?

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And I'm so upset with Etsy over their BLM bullshit.
Posted by: Jewells45 at June 06, 2020 06:28 PM (dUJdY)

Ok, what did they do

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 06:29 PM (85Gof)

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219 197 oh OK, I get it. Now it's *all* SM. Alright, I'll play. Do you honestly think that any scared mommy on FB, IG, ND or what the fuck ever - is going to share their true feelings in this charged atmosphere?
Posted by: kallisto at June 06, 2020 06:27 PM (jtqoO)

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You have your opinion, I have mine. Good enough?

Posted by: Not Amused at June 06, 2020 06:30 PM (AJ2LA)

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I had a parrot named Chico, which I believe means small, or small boy.
Posted by: washrivergal at Jun

228
Trump at the WH this evening.I am crawling out of my own skin lately.I fucking hate the left.I remember when doing something harmless like standing with open carry at govs office was HORRIBLE, but now it's cheered on to kill whitey..

Where are we?

Posted by: Getcha Pull at June 06, 2020 06:31 PM (aR6C/)

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NGU.. they sent all sellers an email about how they stood with BLM.

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The only social media I have left is LinkedIn - strictly for work-related purposes. As I go through my feed I find myself unfollowing any and all of the following...
1) Any person or company who has changed their logo to a rainbow
2) Anyone who virtue signals about "our racial problems"

I pretty much expect my feed to be empty by the end of the month, which will be fine with me.

FTS.

Posted by: DocJ at June 06, 2020 06:32 PM (DU2N9)

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Oh and to top it off I have some stalker sending me messages on FB jewelry page. I can't figure out how to block him.

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Re-reading the Founder's papers. Trying to find what wisdom they had for the comfortable (all of us) and how we measure the fight against what the cost is to our children and their children. My life is forfeit, the larger life is the current question.

+++I have a million of 'em with Chico. One being, he hated all males, so he would bite, squawk, raise all kinds of hell the moment either my husband or son came near.

Posted by: washrivergal at June 06, 2020 06:33 PM (UAOfD)

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219 197 oh OK, I get it. Now it's *all* SM. Alright, I'll play. Do you honestly think that any scared mommy on FB, IG, ND or what the fuck ever - is going to share their true feelings in this charged atmosphere?
Posted by: kallisto at June 06, 2020 06:27 PM (jtqoO)
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What can you do? If you say nothing, you're not a good ally. If you say something in support, you're co-opting their struggle. If you say all lives matter, you're minimizing their pain from your position of privilege. And if you are crazy enough to object, you will be burned at the stake.

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DocJ - try an advocacy group for autistic children. Keep knocking on doors, there's bound to be some relief. Maybe even direct to your son's residence manager? The county official they report to. Just start knocking on doors. It's for your son, so worth it.

Posted by: kallisto at June 06, 2020 06:34 PM (jtqoO)

237
Meanwhile I'm reading Walden (Thoreau). Had now idea how much of a "Fight Club" vibe it had. Very surprising.

Posted by: DocJ at June 06, 2020 06:35 PM (DU2N9)

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232 Oh and to top it off I have some stalker sending me messages on FB jewelry page. I can't figure out how to block him.
Posted by: Jewells45 at June 06, 2020 06:33 PM (dUJdY)
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As a Mass resident also, I really feel for you, doc J. I live alone and when they closed my gym I was devastated. They are manipulating the statistics to make things look worse than they are. Just when the stats started to look like we were done they decided to add presumed cases and deaths causing a huge spike in the graphs. This is the second time they have done this. The first was supposedly an "error" but they put the update in one days stats causing a huge spike.
My "friends" are such typical liberals that they wouldn't even think about visiting me.
I am sick to death of this state.
I used to run community residences so I truly understand.

According to Second City Cop and a few other sources Hispanic gangs in Chicago and Cicero have been beating the shit out of rioters who enter their neighborhoods/territories. They want nothing to do with them but I doubt it will change any voting patterns in November

266
So, Rev has decided to throw in the towel, er, I mean, semi-retire next month. He's pretty much done. This is really going to cut into my blogging time. I need to find him a hobby that doesn't involve me.

- taking a picture from Facebook of their target (The Right and Whites),
- downloading it,
- using Snapchat to add something racist (or whatever ism),
- uploading the picture to reddit or Twitter or some other platform

the person is then destroyed for life based on a lie.

(Friendly advice, scrub all personal and family pictures from social media)

Posted by: Gov. Stretchin Gretchen at June 06, 2020 06:45 PM (v8OxE)

268According
to Second City Cop and a few other sources Hispanic gangs in Chicago
and Cicero have been beating the shit out of rioters who enter their
neighborhoods/territories. They want nothing to do with them but I doubt
it will change any voting patterns in November

272The CEO of JPMorgan Chase was photographed taking a knee in front of a
large bank vault on Friday, sparking speculation that he was expressing
support for anti-racism protests that have spread across the United
States.

His bank declined to confirm whether there was a deeper
meaning behind the photograph, but Dimon had previously voiced sympathy
for the demonstrations, stating that Chase was "committed to fighting against racism and discrimination wherever and however it exists."

Gee, it would be terrible if Chase Banks got hit and hit bad

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 06, 2020 06:47 PM (EZlRU)

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Well I was close. I know how to say it's hot out and that's about it

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266
So, Rev has decided to throw in the towel, er, I mean, semi-retire next
month. He's pretty much done. This is really going to cut into my
blogging time. I need to find him a hobby that doesn't involve me.

Posted by: grammie winger at June 06, 2020 06:45 PM (lwiT4)

++++So very sorry to hear this. You've both put in so much time and energy just trying to get the church doors open again. How very disheartening for both of you.

Posted by: washrivergal at June 06, 2020 06:50 PM (UAOfD)

286
I think a lot of people who expected to work a few more years have decided to retire now. These zoom meetings are brutal and exhausting.

288
And now apparently it is forbiden to take issue with BLM and you cn and will lose your job over it.

Posted by: Nevergiveup

That's just phase 1 of the revolution.

Posted by: Pol Pot at June 06, 2020 06:50 PM (SJDa9)

289So, Rev has decided to throw in the towel, er, I mean, semi-retire next month. He's pretty much done. This is really going to cut into my blogging time. I need to find him a hobby that doesn't involve me.

290
According to Second City Cop and a few other sources Hispanic gangs in Chicago vand Cicero have been beating the shit out of rioters who enter their neighborhoods/territories. They want nothing to do with them but I doubt it will change any voting patterns in November

Posted by: TheQuietMan

Historically, where law enforcement refuses to their job, vigilantism erupts.

291
According to Second City Cop and a few other sources Hispanic gangs in Chicago and Cicero have been beating the shit out of rioters who enter their neighborhoods/territories. They want nothing to do with them but I doubt it will change any voting patterns in November
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 06, 2020 06:41 PM (EZlRU)

Good. The Latin Kings stomping the shit out of Antifa is something I'd pay good money to watch.

292
I don't think these wine moms are scared at all. They want yo be seen by everyone as compassionate. They want to be able to tell their friends how horrible other people are, as they let their Hispanic housekeeper take care of their children and lawn. As long as other people see how they are filled with guilt for being white, they don't think the BLM movement will touch them.

Posted by: Megthered at June 06, 2020 06:51 PM (GWvAY)

293
People like Michelle Malkin have been correct for the last 2 decades about Marxism, and people like her are consistently pushed out of the mainstream Conservatives and Right. Really makes you think.

Posted by: Gov. Stretchin Gretchen at June 06, 2020 06:51 PM (v8OxE)

294
So, Rev has decided to throw in the towel, er, I mean, semi-retire next

month. He's pretty much done. This is really going to cut into my

blogging time. I need to find him a hobby that doesn't involve me.

Posted by: grammie winger at June 06, 2020 06:45 PM (lwiT4)

Reopen the church and say that every service is a memorial to St. George.

299
The video of the University of Texas punks attack the black cop really got my blood boiling. I imagined havoc. Calmed me down bit.

Posted by: Javems at June 06, 2020 06:53 PM (ofIwF)

300
So, Rev has decided to throw in the towel, er, I mean, semi-retire next month. He's pretty much done. This is really going to cut into my blogging time. I need to find him a hobby that doesn't involve me.
Posted by: grammie winger at June 06, 2020 06:45 PM (lwiT4)

I got it ! Cooking ! Gourmet.

Posted by: runner at June 06, 2020 06:53 PM (zr5Kq)

301
Reopen the church and say that every service is a memorial to St. George.

306
292 I don't think these wine moms are scared at all. They want yo be seen by everyone as compassionate. They want to be able to tell their friends how horrible other people are, as they let their Hispanic housekeeper take care of their children and lawn. As long as other people see how they are filled with guilt for being white, they don't think the BLM movement will touch them.
Posted by: Megthered at June 06, 2020 06:51 PM (GWvAY)

You're right, they are not scared, they are pissed.

Have spoken to a few of my old clients in River Oaks and they are pissed off

and in the Park Cities as well

Posted by: REDACTED at June 06, 2020 06:55 PM (JgrP5)

307
Reopen the church and say that every service is a memorial to St. George.

They closed the dog park my husband takes the dog to so he thought maybe go protest with the other dog people.. His sign idea"Black Labs matter " I said I don't think that's a good idea

Posted by: It's me donna at June 06, 2020 06:55 PM (Zmnko)

308
That Joan pic. That'll cause MP4 to have to break out the smelling salts. Oh, yes.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 06, 2020 06:55 PM (O+I8R)

309Out on 805 southbound in San Diego about 2 pm local time, I saw a large caravan of BLM types. They exited onto State Route 52, and then I-15 south. Headed downtown apparently. I assume they came from up north, L.A. etc.

Signs on cars, fists in the air, honking horns, and from what I could see, 100% white.

314
grammie as a life long hobbyist I think he needs to find one, you might be able to help direct him to find one but to turn out well it must be his decision.

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2020 06:56 PM (6f16T)

315The CEO of JPMorgan Chase was photographed taking a knee in front of a
large bank vault on Friday, sparking speculation that he was expressing
support for anti-racism protests that have spread across the United
States.

Have spoken to a few of my old clients in River Oaks and they are pissed off

and in the Park Cities as well

Posted by: REDACTED at June 06, 2020 06:55 PM (JgrP5)

I really hope so because all I'm seeing is a lot of virtue signaling nitwits showing that they are down with the cause

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 06, 2020 06:56 PM (EZlRU)

317
He spoke to the head elder again this afternoon. Still NO. I think the fight has gone out of him. He actually is looking into prison ministry as a possibility. Just as a volunteer.
Posted by: grammie winger at June 06, 2020 06:56 PM (lwiT4)

++++Not a bad idea. The way it's lookin' the inmates may be familiar faces.

Posted by: washrivergal at June 06, 2020 06:56 PM (UAOfD)

319
Melania looks tired and irritable; I wonder if it's the heat.And Duchess Kate should have that dress re-fitted, to get rid of those stupid exaggerated shoulders. Either that or give it to her daughter to play with.

Posted by: Annalucia at June 06, 2020 06:56 PM (S6ArX)

320 Oh and to top it off I have some stalker sending me messages on FB jewelry page. I can't figure out how to block him.
Posted by: Jewells45 at June 06, 2020 06:33 PM (dUJdY)

Is asking FB to do it for you an option?

Posted by: Adriane the Music History Critic ... at June 06, 2020 06:57 PM (LPnfS)

I'm sorry that the Elders are so intransigent. That sounds so painful.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 06, 2020 06:58 PM (+eVzC)

322The woman in blue is attempting to psychically blow up someone's head.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 06, 2020 06:58 PM (rTZNj)

323
According to Second City Cop and a few other sources Hispanic gangs in Chicago vand Cicero have been beating the shit out of rioters who enter their neighborhoods/territories. They want nothing to do with them but I doubt it will change any voting patterns in November

Posted by: TheQuietMan

What they should do is hire Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn to kick some ass.

324
Reopen the church and say that every service is a memorial to St. George.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 06, 2020 06:52 PM (EZlRU)
++++
Good one.
Posted by: washrivergal at June 06, 2020 06:54 PM (UAOfD)

Yup......excellent idea.

Watch that old "Sanford and Son" episode where Fred started his own church to dodge taxes and rake in the cash.

333
319
Melania looks tired and irritable; I wonder if it's the heat.And
Duchess Kate should have that dress re-fitted, to get rid of those
stupid exaggerated shoulders. Either that or give it to her daughter to
play with.

Posted by: Annalucia at June 06, 2020 06:56 PM (S6ArX)

++++Donald has a grimace on his face also. They are both looking at something they do not wish to encounter. Maybe it is the Obama's or the Clinton's.

Posted by: washrivergal at June 06, 2020 07:00 PM (UAOfD)

334
After speaking out last weekend about the death of George Floyd, Property Brothers star Jonathan Scott is committing to using his platform and his voice to "affect lasting change."

At the same time, Jonathan announced he is donating to four nonprofits working nationwide:the NAACP, Fair Fight, The Conscious Kid, and the ACLU.

350No kidding. They shut the church down before the lockdown even went into effect. First week of March was our last service.
Posted by: grammie winger at June 06, 2020 07:00 PM (lwiT4)

Start your own ministry for shut-ins of the non criminal kind? Work with an established hospice as a chaplain?

Posted by: Adriane the Music History Critic ... at June 06, 2020 07:04 PM (LPnfS)

351No kidding. They shut the church down before the lockdown even went into effect. First week of March was our last service.Posted by: grammie winger at June 06, 2020 07:00 PM (lwiT4)

In happier news, my church is reopening for a full service tomorrow, as the county swings into "Phase II" of the reopening schedule. Before, we had to do two little services, but now we can do one big one, just like we did in the Before Times.

353Has anybody covered the fake teargas story? Liberal Hivemind had some video that caught it, but he didn't mention it.
Or am I way behind, as usual?

Posted by: Gooshy at June 06, 2020 07:05 PM (9tU8U)

354
Insom - he's done prison ministry before, although it's been many many years. He also has experience with special needs kids. Maybe he could be a substitute teacher. Don't worry - I'll be sure to find him something!

I did a bit of work with some cons and ex-cons a while back. It was the most frustrating, depressing task I ever tried to do, and I sucked real bad at it. Should the Rev go that route, I hope he's way better at it than me.

376
The CEO of JPMorgan Chase was photographed taking a knee in front of a large bank vault on Friday, sparking speculation that he was expressing support for anti-racism protests that have spread across the United States.

379
The CEO of JPMorgan Chase was photographed taking a knee in front of a large bank vault on Friday, sparking speculation that he was expressing support for anti-racism protests that have spread across the United States.

382
A man identifying himself as Ace Burns delivered an ominous threat to New Yorkers Saturday during a live interview on Fox News, warning that protesters could set fire to Manhattans storied Diamond District if New York leaders don't meet their demands.

Becauses, no doubt, JOOOOS

Anyone gonna arrest this fine gentle giant trying to improve his life for making terrorist threats?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 06, 2020 07:13 PM (85Gof)

383
All these businesses, celebs, fools and douche bags donating money to the BM's of the world will make not one bit of difference.

The money will be wasted, the promises of "change" forgotten and 20 years from now some rapper/country artist/femdom will be rapping about ridin dirty.

One big circle jerk.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 06, 2020 07:13 PM (Z+IKu)

384
The money will be wasted, the promises of "change" forgotten and 20 years from now some rapper/country artist/femdom will be rapping about ridin dirty.

He should join Widestance Pepe somewhere, they can argue over Who's White During the Struggle, or something.

Meanwhile, what did I miss? Is DC burning? Anywhere else? Did Floyd's body fall out of the casket, a la Khomeini, when the Ghanaian funeral dancers tossed it around over-head? Or did I dream that part?

413
I have been unfollowing most of my craft IG and YouTubers because of this BLM/antifa BS. These are wine moms who crochet. or needlework or watercolor or review cozy mysteries who seem to think that I give 2 shits about their politics. These women have children and just talk about crafting or books are suddenly down with the black man. Some aren't even in the US. Trashing Trump and conservatives like we sacrifice blacks for dinner.

Posted by: Megthered at June 06, 2020 07:27 PM (x6O5L)

414
Think the Fishtown/Phila baseball bats and golf club thing was a few days ago. I read that Phila PD - somebody - initially gave their blessing, then later some brass denounced it.

According to the Naperville police twitter, 200 people marched yesterday but they weren't all locals. Cops got wise to 30 in the crowd who were there to do more than virtue signal and made 2 arrests. It's a pity the mayhem didn't start in the middle of the wine moms virtue signaling. I would have paid to see that.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 06, 2020 07:27 PM (EZlRU)

416
Well, isn't THIS special: our company set up a Go Fund me campaign where they'll match our donations to the NAACP and BLM.AND, extra special hotness: the organizing entity can SEE WHO donated, EVEN if you do it anonymously -- so we're forced, contra NYS labor laws [insert joke here] to contribute $$$ to our enemies, or go on the Maoist Shit list. Forever labeled as white supremacists.

We have the choice of ponying up to the Mafia, or risk losing our jobs.

Posted by: Beverly at June 06, 2020 07:27 PM (+0Ebw)

417
ANTIFA cancelled their protest in Placerville, CA today when the Hell's Angels said they would be meeting them there

418
> Think the Fishtown/Phila baseball bats and golf club thing was a few days ago.

You're right, so it was. I just saw it in my new Twatter feed for some reason.

I'm guessing that Fishtown was not looted and burned.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 06, 2020 07:29 PM (hKLpI)

419
I would be willing to bet that if there are black people in Lake Forest, most are in, what should I say - service positions.

Posted by: grammie winger at June 06, 2020 07:24 PM (lwiT4)

Emo Phillips joke about the Chicago northshore burbs. There was a blackout in Lake Forest (pause) but the police showed up and asked him to leave

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 06, 2020 07:29 PM (EZlRU)

420
I would be willing to bet that if there are black people in Lake Forest, most are in, what should I say - service positions.
Posted by: grammie winger at June 06, 2020 07:24 PM (lwiT4)

Hispanics/Latinos.

I am willing to bet that those protesting are millennials or zillenials whose mommy and daddy are filthy rich and don't know how to entertain their precious. "Protest ? Go right ahead dear. Wear sunscreen."

422
> Hmm, I guess I will keep dad's last set of clubs. I have bats too.

I remember during the bad riots in the UK about 15-20 years ago that Brits developed a sudden and unaccountable fascination with baseball. As I recall, baseball bats made the top ten best-selling items on amazon.co.uk.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 06, 2020 07:31 PM (hKLpI)

423392 Hope some Air Force fighter aircraft are armed and ready to defend the White House
Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2020 07:19 PM (6f16T)

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That would provide the Left with an incident they would use for propaganda, for the next hundred years.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 06, 2020 07:31 PM (t5m5e)

424 Locals in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia have taken to the
street with baseball bats and golf clubs to keep the "peaceful
protestors" out of their area.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth)

People in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago were in front of their homes and businesses with bats and pipes to protect them. Lightfoot said she wouldn't not stand for any vigilantism. Rioting and looting - yes. Protecting your home or business - no

426
On a lighter note: Johnny Carson with talking Myna
Bird. There are actually two different clips spliced together, but the one that stops around 1:54 is the best one:

https://tinyurl.com/y8wurpas

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 06, 2020 07:32 PM (+eVzC)

427
NY didn't crush any curves, doubtful they affected any curves. If any lives were "saved", it's impossible to say, since the entire purpose of "curve flattening" was the *timing* of acute cases, not reducing the total number thru the course of the epidemic - only "saved" lives would have been from those directly attributable to no access to acute care. No instances known. And NYC was the only place that even came close to maxing out, most places delivered body blows to hospitals and medicine generally by emptying them and watching them sit unused.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 07:32 PM (El6T/)

428
416 Well, isn't THIS special: our company set up a Go Fund me campaign where they'll match our donations to the NAACP and BLM.

******
Beverly, how are you? I was thinking about you the other night. Hopefully things have calmed down in your area.

435
I am willing to bet that those protesting are millennials or zillenials whose mommy and daddy are filthy rich and don't know how to entertain their precious. "Protest ? Go right ahead dear. Wear sunscreen."
Posted by: runner at June 06, 2020 07:29 PM (zr5Kq)

440
REDACTED, you are right. As soon as mall and movie theaters open it will overtake current zest for protest.

Posted by: runner at June 06, 2020 07:35 PM (zr5Kq)

441
Seeing all these idiots (mostly younger) wearing masks (anywhere, but especially outside), "protesting" without having the slightest familiarity with the facts and merits of what they think they're "protesting", I'm provisionally writing the country off.

The emptiness of their minds and the olympian scale of their arrogance and moral narcissism, rightly compared to Maoist yute during the Cultural Revolution.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 07:36 PM (El6T/)

442 Hope some Air Force fighter aircraft are armed and ready to defend the White House
Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2020 07:19 PM (6f16T)

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That would provide the Left with an incident they would use for propaganda, for the next hundred years.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young would reunite to sing about it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 06, 2020 07:36 PM (aKsyK)

443
Lake Forest, IL median income : $175,840. Not as high as other north shore burbs, but up there.

Posted by: runner at June 06, 2020 07:22 PM (zr5Kq)

I would be willing to bet that if there are black people in Lake Forest, most are in, what should I say - service positions. Posted by: grammie winger

Halas Hall, Bears training facility, is in Lake Forest. Lake Foresters just making sure the players know their issues are understood. They did board up the windows in their small business district in advance though (perhaps sending a somewhat contradictory message) but from what I understand the protest was very peaceful and virtue-signally.

445
Wuhan flu cases are skyrocketing in Seattle again. Hmmm. Almost as if having thousands of rioters, errr I mean peaceful protestors together for a week is not safe social distancing. Im sure it will be blamed on Trump though.

I've been trolling the shit out of Twatter communists by pointing out that he was a brave Hispanic man, likely of indigenous descent, who was merely defending his homeland against would-be white colonizers.

As that evil fuck Alinsky said, make them live up to their own rulebook.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 06, 2020 07:37 PM (hKLpI)

451
I am willing to bet that those protesting are millennials or zillenials whose mommy and daddy are filthy rich and don't know how to entertain their precious. "Protest ? Go right ahead dear. Wear sunscreen."
Posted by: runner at June 06, 2020 07:29 PM

After the protest they're going to gather at Olivia and Madison's house (it's closest) for some White Claws.

Posted by: Gem at June 06, 2020 07:38 PM (kIHih)

452
My church is meeting tomorrow-maximum 40 people and social Distancing. I'm not sure if we're allowed to sing.

456
Halas
Hall, Bears training facility, is in Lake Forest. Lake Foresters just
making sure the players know their issues are understood.
They did board up the windows in their small business district in
advance though (perhaps sending a somewhat contradictory message) but
from what I understand the protest was very peaceful and
virtue-signally.

461
The school regularly importunes me to leave a bequest to them in my will.

I would very much like to replay as to how many fucks I do not give about a "woke" law school.
Posted by: Flea Bailey at June 06, 2020 07:38 PM (AD32I)

I get similar requests "don't you want to help students?"
I say "fuck no, leave me alone, the little bastards can take out loans" . It doesn't work.

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 07:40 PM (ONvIw)

462
Well, isn't THIS special: our company set up a Go Fund me campaign where they'll match our donations to the NAACP and BLM.AND,
extra special hotness: the organizing entity can SEE WHO donated, EVEN
if you do it anonymously -- so we're forced, contra NYS labor laws
[insert joke here] to contribute $$$ to our enemies, or go on the Maoist
Shit list. Forever labeled as white supremacists.

We have the choice of ponying up to the Mafia, or risk losing our jobs.

I've been trolling the shit out of Twatter communists by pointing out that he was a brave Hispanic man, likely of indigenous descent, who was merely defending his homeland against would-be white colonizers.

As that evil fuck Alinsky said, make them live up to their own rulebook.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 06, 2020 07:37 PM (hKLpI)

Tell them you're singing hymns in honor of St George and they'll come join you. Call every service a memorial

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 07:42 PM (ONvIw)

465458 Bongino report - 17 people have lost their lives so far in these protests/ looting, but only St George's counts.
Posted by: Skip

Once his usefulness has been completed and he's finally buried into the ground, that family will be Cindy Sheehan'd. The Needs of the Revolution will move on.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 06, 2020 07:42 PM (HEosa)

466
Turns out the 75-year old "peace activist" was inciting violence. He was hand-scanning the police to wiretap or even jam their communications. The info would be passed on to his ANTIFA buddies to attack police. That old son of a bitch is a domestic terrorist, not a victim. Fuck him.

Companies use the same trick to coerce "voluntary" "donations" to United Way.

Posted by: filbert at June 06, 2020 07:43 PM (NiXyF)

470
466 Turns out the 75-year old "peace activist" was inciting violence. He was hand-scanning the police to wiretap or even jam their communications. The info would be passed on to his ANTIFA buddies to attack police. That old son of a bitch is a domestic terrorist, not a victim. Fuck him.
Posted by: BLM--Burn, Loot and Murder at June 06, 2020 07:43 PM (Ndje9)

He deserved what he got, if spying for antifa.

Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 07:43 PM (ONvIw)

471
"Skyrocketing" cases of C-19 aren't of any consequence, if the "protesters" aren't elderly and/or medically compromised. The IFR is almost surely vastly over-estimated at twice influenza (0.10 vs 0.26), and the more confirmed cases, the clearer that will be.

474
Is the bit about the Buffalo old guy actually confirmed? It was the immediate speculation by some, based on his actions. Sort of thing that really needs to be confirmed out the wazoo before people start clinging to it, bitterly or otherwise.

476
Is the bit about the Buffalo old guy actually confirmed? It was the immediate speculation by some, based on his actions. Sort of thing that really needs to be confirmed out the wazoo before people start clinging to it, bitterly or otherwise.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 07:45 PM (El6T/)

All I know is that the old fuck was a professional rabble rouser and well known to the Police. And he did not follow orders to withdraw and reached out to touch the police. He got what he deserved

We social distanced last week and we were certainly going to sing on Pentecost Sunday. We don't have a choir. It might be a problem with a choir but if you're sitting six feet apart it's ridiculous not to sing, IMO, but I'm not a Dr. We have to sing ""Holy Holy Holy" on Trinity Sunday.

489
Yeah, I'll only step up on the platform as presiding judge at this drum-head tribunal to agree that the old guy is entirely responsible for his problems, as he was ignoring repeated legitimate normal police direction to clear the way during a large street-sweep operation.

I was just wondering about the "scanning" speculation, if it had received substantial confirmation from any source.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 07:50 PM (El6T/)

490
74 Is the bit about the Buffalo old guy actually confirmed? It was the immediate speculation by some, based on his actions. Sort of thing that really needs to be confirmed out the wazoo before people start clinging to it, bitterly or otherwise.
****

If you look closely at the video, the old guy walks toward a cop and passes what looks like a cell phone over and along the cop's arm, where I *think* his radio is attached. So he may have been trying to capture the frequency the police were using to communicate.

I also think the guy's age led directly to his falling backward. It's very common for geezers (I am one) to have poor balance.

In any case what happened doesn't rise to a firing offense.

Posted by: Flea Bailey at June 06, 2020 07:50 PM (AD32I)

491
Just remember that for every person that is the street, like in NYC

there are hundreds that are not, maybe thousands

Posted by: REDACTED at June 06, 2020 07:50 PM (JgrP5)

492Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young would reunite to sing about it.One of these, er, gentlemen just asked my B-I-L to take his equipment from a LA warehouse and bring it to Bakersfield for safekeeping. Guess the libtard.

498Is the bit about the Buffalo old guy actually confirmed? It was the immediate speculation by some, based on his actions. Sort of thing that really needs to be confirmed out the wazoo before people start clinging to it, bitterly or otherwise.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 07:45 PM (El6T/)

I don't know about confirmed, but he definitely was holding up a cell phone to two different officers' comm equipment . . . a third cop came up from behind the first two and he's the one who started pushing the guy back.

I speculate that the third cop saw that the guy was trying to electonically scan the first two cops and decided that was a bad thing to do.

Also, isn't it just a tad interesting that the entire 70+ of the Buffalo swat team all resigned in support of the cops in the incident?

I went to bed late, but after reading Krak's 6am post. I bitched, but it was the beer talking.

Woke up late, did a few hours of basic chores, and read JJ's response from NYC, which is unfortunately close to mine, living in a suburb south of Seattle.

I get both perspectives. As an actual Seattleite, born in the city in the 50's, I have seen this area go from a very blue collar area, albeit fiercely independent, to a Blue-Hive buzzing center in the populous area of WA. WA state has such an abundance of incredible geography, more than a single soul could ever experience in a single lifetime.

I'm not moving.

I saw JJ quote "someone from Seattle say they were born here and they are not leaving". Hey! JJ is talking about ME! I've gone on some giant rants about not leaving! Oh, wait. Not me, it's nurse rached, I realized in a few seconds. But that's ok, she is the unofficial CEO of the PacNW Morons. Oregon Muse is our unofficial Chairman of the Board. I like our leaders.

Oh yeah, leaders. Real leaders are elected. And the left coast states are all blue now, with mostly red in the countrysides. But look under the covers, peel back a couple of layers of onion, and what you will find is a corrupt voting system that keeps them in place.

The voting system has been corrupted. Motor Voter states are Blue states for a reason. I saw it with my own eyes when I renewed my driver's license a few years ago.

Everyone who gets a new driver's license gets a card to fill out, check a single box saying they are able to vote, and *BOOM!* you're registered to vote. Even the Latino guys in their '40's that can't speak a single word of English, and need their daughter to translate with the clerk.

It's THAT easy. Another non-citizen added to the voting rolls.

And this corruption has been going on since the early to mid 90's. At first, the non-citizens were slow to do it, fearing to be deported. But after a full generation of NOBODY being deported, countless thousands are now stepping right up and stealing citizen rights.

And the Blues want this, it is how they have gained power.

More proof of this was in Colorado in 2016. Lots of non-citizens have transitioned from California and south of the border. A few days after Trump won, there were something like 4,000 registered, seasoned (previously voted in an election) who DE-REGISTERED!

That has never happened before. Anywhere. Why? Because on a few of Trump's rants in the campaign, he said he would root them out of the rolls, and my speculation is that they were not citizens and did not want to be deported.

They may not be citizens and want a say it what is going on (they probably have good jobs, families, and pay lots of taxes, too) and since no government official is stopping their friends who have been voting for years, they have jumped on this train, too.

How to fix this? Well, the state election boards are so totally corrupt, or ignore this completely, like the Repub Secretary of State in WA. She is compliant to the corruption, even though she swears she is pure as a newborn baby. In other words, there is no force to stop the voter roll corruption.

So, a Federal law must be passed that says voter rolls are so corrupt that they need to be thrown out, and if your state wants to count for FEDERAL elections, you must certify each voter is indeed a US citizen.

This is actually easier than you would think. Anyone born after WWII is at least 75. Every birth is registered, and that data is online. Every naturalized citizen was made one by a federal court action, and there is a docket number for that, too.

If someone is 91, and somehow their birth certificate wasn't registered, either spend some extra resources to find it, or heck, there are so few people over 75 in our population today, just give them a pass.

Until YOUR state has done this, none of your votes will count in the Presidential race. I would add Reps and Senate positions, but President directly affects everyone.

The Left would scream. I don't care. The alternative for both left and right is much worse.

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Turns out the 75-year old "peace activist" was inciting violence. He was hand-scanning the police to wiretap or even jam their communications. The info would be passed on to his ANTIFA buddies to attack police. That old son of a bitch is a domestic terrorist, not a victim. Fuck him.
Posted by: BLM--Burn, Loot and Murder at June 06, 2020 07:43 PM (Ndje9)

He deserved what he got, if spying for antifa.
Posted by: CN at June 06, 2020 07:43 PM (ONvIw)

He got DRT?

Posted by: Burnt Toast at June 06, 2020 08:25 PM (1g7ch)

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Not be left out, the sad plummeting husk of the UK today featured vandalism of the Churchill monument (D-Day), and a woman cop seriously injured when idiots threw bricks at her horse, spooking it, resulting in her bashing her head into a traffic light.

I've been hoping against hope some kook would chisel out the MLK monument near the Capitol - it would be an entirely appropriate gesture for these people who completely reject every element of MLK's philosophy (the "protesters").

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 08:40 PM (El6T/)

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What they did is like the same dumb crap that Chauvin did.
Posted by: Braenyard

It's called the heat of the moment and having been on the job, at a high level of stress , for a significant number of days. So no , it isn't the same shit as Chauvin.

For days I've chided the NFL for not being as stupidly racist and so publicly in love with genocidal tyranny (Chinese regime) as the NBA.

Of course the NFL unlike the NBA is not really a global "brand".

But they've answered my challenge. Denver Broncos announce "If you ain't with us, you against us" - clearly in support of whatever the hell it is the racist airheads in the streets claim to believe they want. Oh - "change".

The twitter comments are hilarious, and acid.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2020 08:56 PM (El6T/)

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It's called the heat of the moment and having been on the job, at a high level of stress , for a significant number of days. So no , it isn't the same shit as Chauvin.

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Checked 3 DC feeds at periscope. A band playing on one and people milling around on the other two.

It doesn't look like they are going to attempt to burn the house down.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 06, 2020 09:18 PM (Fk2WS)

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Eris, everyone on "right side" twitter is celebrating and mocking this thing with the child mayor of Mpls.

I suppose because most of those people, though far less stupid, ignorant, alien in their values, or racist, like "liberal" dimwits with a public profile, really don't know how to do much except through rhetorical bricks.

I am not laughing a bit.

Not because maoist Gleichschaltung ("it's global, it's diverse!") will prevail. It won't. But that it has *any* presence, traction, at all in the US, anywhere, is sickening.

Many will harp on the electoral backlash that *seems* likely. Thing one. Obama was nominated and actually elected twice - there IS no bottom on American political degradation, not any more. Thing two. Even in the likely event Trump is re-elected, so what: these people these hollow and collapsed institutions, these forgotten/rejected/slandered civic values and traditions are clearly just gone for an enormous part of the country.

Ace of Spades Pet Thread

Hello Morons. Welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Take a load off and enjoy the world of animals.

While we are enjoying the world of animals, let's leave the news and current events outside the front door.

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A Little of This. A Little of That.

(H/T Miley)

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Meet The PetMorons

Kneel before the cute.

Picked him up yesterday in Mississippi (also did the Faulkner gravesite and Rowan Oak residence visit--just the grounds, entry not permitted). Heading back today. Canis Zod Sr. is unaware that she's about to have a little brother to boss around.

Carpe Canis--Seize The Dog!

Who walks on paws observes the laws
of rowdy play and dog-romp folly--
Beagle, mutt, or thin-faced collie
To every canine comes the rule:
Don't snap, don't jump, don't act the fool--

'Mongst other dogs who are your betters.
Whose owners long have used the letters
AKC to their canines ascribe
A higher class of the dog-tribe.

Nose-to-tail is the doggish grace
(not so unlike the human race);
To ken your kin and to be known.
By smelling hinds and licking faces
The dog observes its doggish graces
Their own dog-whistle, their own dog-phone:
"I'll please mind yours, please mind my own."

For us, the owners of said hounds,
As duly, daily we make the rounds
Bagging their leavings, keeping vigil
At the slightly-smelly unkempt dog-temple:

'Tis clear to him who is observant--
Who is the master, and who the servant.

Paul

Cute puppeh. How is the home life? Shoes and furniture still all in one piece? The joys of cuteness bring much responsibility. We appreciate your submission today.

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My sister-inlaw managed to get a decent picture of Annie Apple “helping” with removal of wind debris. It happened to be on the 90 day mark of Annie’s life. Now if I could get Annie to bring the sticks to a burn pile this might be a money maker. Annie however thinks all the sticks are her chew toys. Is there such thing as a beaver Rottweiler mix? - Big V

Look at those adorable eyes. Those eyes say "I'm a big helper Big V." I believe you have the first Beavweiler mix.

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Here are some pics of my pals Django Sunshine , older dog that just passed,and Gibson younger dog passed in oct '19. Gibson was named by breeder after the drink. I liked the name because I love Gibson guitars that have a big full tone, so it fit - Matt

Well those two dogs certainly appeared to have been the best of friends. So sorry to hear they have passed. It must be awfully quiet around the house. Thanks for sharing.

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This is Dutchess, our hard-luck 4-year-old Borzoi girl, in her exercise pen.

She's had nothing but troubles all her life. She developed epilepsy at 18 months, was bitten by a water moccasin, had a urinary tract infection, got bromine poisoning from her medication that made her a near vegetable and most recently broke her hock, requiring 12 weeks of confinement.

For all this, she's a bright, merry little girl. She asks for nothing except a little affection (and her dinner at 7:00). And anything she gets she returns tenfold. There's a lesson there for us bipeds. - Hadrian the Seventh

Wow, Duchess has had a string of bad luck, but clearly is loved by you folks. A beautiful animal with the disposition to match. Thanks for sharing with us today.

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Hello there,

I live in North Texas, where it is not uncommon to spot bobcats out and about in residential neighborhoods. They usually come out under the cover of darkness, but not always. For example, this afternoon I was out walking my dog (who has an unusual respect for felines), and I spotted this beautiful kitty. He was a big boy - about twice the size of my pup, that weighs 16 lbs. The kitty was lounging under the tree, watching something above him (possibly a nest or some squirrels). He let me come up within about 6 feet of him and I was lucky enough to take a bunch of pictures of him with my phone.

I realize that this is a pet thread, and this is technically not a pet, but I did name him Bob (great name for a bobcat) and he was just lovely.

Thank you,
Mimi S (longtime lurker).

Yes, the thread is called the Pet Thread. But, we celebrate all animals including the wild ones that may visit your neighborhood. Awesome photo of this bobcat. Thanks for sharing with us Mimi.

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This is Murphy. Murphy defied a lot of expectations.

First, he was expected to run the streets until he got hit by a car and died. That's what his previous owners did to him - they put him out the front door when they decided to move to a place where he wasn't wanted. Fortunately, he was discovered by the director of the rescue group we were fostering dogs for. He was number two out of about thirty-five foster dogs to come through my home.

Second, he was expected to get adopted by someone pretty soon after he came to us. Well, no. I was informed by my other half that he wasn't going anywhere after about 48 hours. That was nearly ten years ago.

Third, he was expected to be a calm little house dog. Well, no. He had a habit of stealing things and running out through the dog door into the back yard with them. Particularly interesting was when he found my wallet and scattered all of my bank cards out in the yard. He calmed down pretty quickly after that episode; people who foster dogs will tell you that there is typically a behavioral adjustment period when mischief can be expected.

Fourth, he was expected not to do anything in dog sports. Well, no. After one of my Standard Schnauzers washed out of Agility, I put him in classes. He earned a lot of first- and second-tier titles before arthritis compelled his retirement, and was really a fun dog to handle in that sport.

Fifth, he was not expected to go very far in Barn Hunt. He used to just sit on the edge of the ring and look at me as if to say "I don't like this, I don't understand it, please leash me up and take me out." Well, no. After a bit of retraining, he earned a bunch of titles in that sport, and was well on his way to a championship.

Sixth, he was - as a mutt - not expected to be very smart. Well, no. I started a routine of giving the Schnauzers a very nice treat for coming in from the back yard in a timely fashion whenever they started barking and carrying on too much for the neighborhood standards of noise. Murphy learned fairly quickly that when the Schnauzers started making noise, he should go into the back yard, sit quietly and looking at the door, and wait for my signal - then he could come in with them and get a treat for himself as well.

Murphy started having trouble about mid-April. He just wasn't eating well, and seemed uncomfortable. After some confusion between our vet and the specialists, he spent about a week in the hospital and underwent a lot of tests. He went for about a week without eating anything at all, and just drinking a small amount of water. He was eventually diagnosed with multiorgan cancer, and given about two weeks to live.

We brought him home on Friday 4/24. He seemed to be happy to be home - his tail was up and his eyes were bright - but he just wasn't doing well, and he still wasn't eating. And I was trying home-cooked turkey meat out on him.

The next morning, we made the last trip to the vet and he died in my girlfriend's arms. His ashes came home with us on Monday.

Rest easy, Murphy. You really were a great little dog and I will miss you like crazy. - Mark

Do you know what I hate about being the Pet Thread Cob? It is reading the stories of such wonderful animals, the love you Morons have for them and their short existence on this vale of tears. Mark you gave Murphy one hell of a life.

She is cute Miley. How to do you keep that mask on her? Thanks for sharing this photo and the video.

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Good afternoon, Mis Hum!

I know you probably have loads of pics to put on the pet thread, but have wanted to post this pic of our indoor kitties for a while. These are Charlie (black and white Maine Coon,-16 yrs) and Andy (Maine Coon? -13 yrs) Andy is the talkative one, Charlie more subdued. We took in these bad boys when their owner (a friend of ours) needed to go to a Nursing Home last summer, and they were at the vet's office for about 6 weeks before we got them. They had never lived anywhere else. Unfortunately, she was unable to leave the home and passed away about 2 months after she got there, but she was able to learn from my husband that her kitties were being loved, cared for and spoiled by people she knew, so I hope that helped her anxiety. Initially, Charlie was very hesitant and shy, and hunkered under the bed down in the basement for 2 months until we slowly got him to come upstairs. We took it very slowly, and now he has settled in and is very affectionate and cuddly- and the boys hover around my husband when he gets home -(they could give a rip of I'm around or not!) They are ever so sweet and mellow, and I think Charlie got the name because of his cool black mustache (kinda like Charlie Chaplin, maybe?). They are both neutered an declawed, so are indoors all the time. As you see, they have it really tough.......Emoji

Love and enjoy the Pet Thread! - misslurk'ette

A rough life? Let's put it this way, if you ever want to take in a 29 year old Cob, please let me know. You and your hubby have big hearts and adorable looking kittehs. Thanks for sharing today.

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Hello Mis Hum from across the Atlantic in Northern Ireland from an Ulster Moron in the UK in an unnervingly sunny County Down. I post as Sir Ian Botham.
Just wanted to post a couple of pics of the true ruler of our house, Deano, named by my daughter after Dean Martin.
Deano is an autocratic eleven year old Jack Russell who when not posing like a runway supermodel while on a walk along the shore, is far more often to be found snoring and wantonly displaying his wedding tackle to all in sundry.
Which, to be fair, if I had a Hampton Wick a quarter the length of my body, then I'd be showing it off at every possible opportunity too. - Sir Ian Botham.

Ya know, we do try to run a family friendly thread here. But your descriptions were just too good to pass up. Your contribution today does give credence to the "all most world famous Pet Thread" claim. Thank you for sharing.

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Well, that wraps up another Pet Thread. Thanks to all who contributed this past week. And thank you all for reading, comments and the encouraging emails.

If you have something pet or animal related you can submit to us here at petmorons at gmail dot com.

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Murphy looks like he was a lot of fun. And poor Dutchess, to have had so many crappy things happen to her in her young life. Wish I could give her a hug. What a sweet girl. Hope her luck changes for the better very soon.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 06, 2020 03:26 PM (k4dH2)

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I totally forgot to send in a picture of my elderly Maine Coon this week, but I'll try and remember early next week.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 06, 2020 03:26 PM (+oVP5)

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What a wonderful group of pets. Excellent photos and such great stories. Their personalities all came alive even if some of the animals are no longer with us. What would we do without pets to love us and take care of us in crazy times like these?

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Love that bobcat!! Miley, you were brave to get so close, what a beautiful pic.

And love all the others, as usual. MPPPP, agree with your anger. I have a couple of cats I think were thrown out (not together) although don't really know. Like they used to be loved, and then... Can only try to make it up to them.

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Coworker was in the hills earlier this week and came upon pups left by the side of the road. Waited for help (was probably on bike) and they took them to the shelter. She couldn't get one off her mind and went up and adopted the little cutie.

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Oh my gosh, the pic with Django Sunshine and Gibson looks EXACTLY like a pic a took a few years back with my beagles Sam and Buck, with Buck using Sam as a pillow! We lost Sam back in February, sadly, but your pic made me smile! Thank you for sharing, Matt!

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 06, 2020 03:43 PM (OzQGF)

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Robins are nesting somewhere around the yard. Last year Paisley got a baby. I hope we can avoid that this year but I suppose predators gonna predate.

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And the lab pup looks a lot like my Wallace. We got him because the owners were told they couldn't have a large dog. At 10 weeks, it was obvious he would be big. One of the best dogs ever and much loved by my first husband. He just never got over my husband's death and died from pnuemonia several months later.

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What a great group of pets. And the Bobcat. It's rare to see them and coyotes here, but deer don't care.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 06, 2020 03:53 PM (u82oZ)

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About two and a half years ago we adopted two little parakeets from an area animal shelter. We were told a student from the university there had surrendered them and that they had been neglected. This week, one of them, who we named Jupiter, passed away. She was a beautiful little bird, main body was turquoise and her head was yellow. She was always very quiet, not like her surviving friend BlueMoon, who's chirping his head off as I sit here and type this. RIP Jupie.Beautiful pets and stories this week, as usual.

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Saw a black coyote gliding down the street at about 3 in the morning quite as fog.

Posted by: eleven at June 06, 2020 03:57 PM (QLPEO)

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Glad I was able to share, and thanks for posting my pic today! We are known as total animal suckers around here, and have taken in several pets as a result.

Loved all the stories, pictures (lol, Miley) pets, and kindness of the people who posted and told about their pets. (well, maybe not Bob, You all are good humans! Murphy's story was so sweet - somehow pets just come into our lives at random when we most need them.

Our Murphy story goes like this: several years ago, I found a pure-bread long-haired dachshund dog along our gravel road. He looked so tired, thin, and was just running along side the road with his little short legs. I ran home to get some doggie treats, and he was so shy I had to throw them out my driver side window, as he wouldn't come to the car. After several tries, I finally got him to come closer, and put him in the back seat. In a couple seconds, he was up on my lap and laid down. Took him home, and he gobbled food down like he was starving. Called the sheriff, and the two vets to see if anyone had missed a dog. Anyhoo, no one claimed him, and after I had him neutered, checked over and given shots, one of the vet's daughter took him to her parents west of here on a ranch, and now he lives La Vida Loca. Rides on the mower, and is as fat and happy as can be. My husband said- "I hope that doesn't happen to me if you find me along the side of the road" . LOL - I told him "don't piss me off", in a kind and loving way, of course! The dog just looked like a "Murphy" to me - so "Murphy" it was!

So the moral of the story is, I guess we could take in a 29 year old COB, if you ever need a place. You have to be housebroken, though

Sorry so long - although all the threads are wonderful, the pet thread is especially my favorite. Just thank you!

A lady goes to her priest one day and tells him, "Father, I have a problem. I have two female parrots, but they only know how to say one thing."

"What do they say?" the priest inquired.

"They say, 'Hi, we're hookers! Do you want to have some fun?'"

"That's obscene!" the priest exclaimed, then he thought for a moment. "You know," he said, "I may have a solution to your problem. I have two male talking parrots, which I have taught to pray and read the Bible. Bring your two parrots over to my house, and we'll put them in the cage with Francis and Peter. My parrots can teach your parrots to praise and worship, and your parrots are sure to stop saying that phrase in no time."

"Thank you," the woman responded, "this may very well be the solution."

The next day, she brought her female parrots to the priest's house. As he ushered her in, she saw that his two male parrots were inside their cage holding rosary beads and praying.

Impressed, she walked over and placed her parrots in with them.

After a few minutes, the female parrots cried out in unison:

"Hi, we're hookers! Do you want to have some fun?"

There was stunned silence.

Shocked, one male parrot looked over at the other male parrot and exclaimed:

"Put the beads away, Frank. Our prayers have been answered!"

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 06, 2020 04:00 PM (u82oZ)

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My accomplishments are few, but I will claim victory because I am awake on a Saturday afternoon. Yay me.

This is such a totally odd year because none of the usual abandoned animals from the college crowd. Eerily quiet.

Sniffling and coughing away, is it pet dander allergies or pollen allergies; must be memorex.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 06, 2020 04:00 PM (MIKMs)

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I showed my cats the Taddy vid and told them they need to up their game.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 06, 2020 04:01 PM (2DOZq)

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Misslurk'ette bless you for taking in that pup. Dachshunds are my absolute favorite and I love the long haired ones though have never owned one.

41Saw a black coyote gliding down the street at about 3 in the morning quite as fog.

Spirit coyote?

Impending black swan coyote event?

I got a bad feeling about this.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 06, 2020 04:03 PM (kVr0X)

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Thanks, Jewells! I think people know we are total suckers for animals, so sometimes they just drop them off, or we find them. I was surprised to see that this looked like an expensive, pure-bread animal that someone just dropped along the road. Makes you wonder which one is the animal?

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Wonderful pictures. Such pretty pets! I love Deano, so proud in his new walking jersey!And Taddy, who skis better than I ever could!And the new babies and the old ones who have passed over.When I move to a safer neighborhood I hope to acquire one too.

I showed him his fame. He licked the screen.
Then he scampered behind the loveseat and began to urinate.

Posted by: Zod at June 06, 2020 04:09 PM (XzT/D)

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Oh - did you mean that the car ran over the kitties, NaCly? Maybe I misunderstood - OMG -

Posted by: misslurk'ette at June 06, 2020 04:10 PM (GDpRb)

51I showed him his fame. He licked the screen.
Then he scampered behind the loveseat and began to urinate.

Posted by: Zod

lol, gotta luv the puppies!

Posted by: Infidel at June 06, 2020 04:10 PM (UPF6H)

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>>Lab puppies are the cutest things ever, and I say that as a lover of all things Newfoundland and German Shepherd. Congrats on a great looking pup.
Posted by: Moki at June 06, 2020 04:08 PM (/H+aK)

Thanks, he's a blast. Jumps into my lap when I'm on the floor, curls up, starts chewing on [enter object]. Great little pup.

Posted by: Zod at June 06, 2020 04:11 PM (XzT/D)

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Mis Hum. Did you get my e-mail about my wee man Kink? I buried him on Wednesday. My little mate and friend. God bless you. See you on the other side.

Posted by: NZFrank with a M2 at June 06, 2020 04:11 PM (2RzPW)

54But my true red-hot burning hatred is reserved for people who just throw an unwanted pet out the door without caring whether it dies or not. I wish I had the power to hurt them.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 06, 2020

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I've told this story before, but that was how I came to adopt my Wolf cat. His people (word loosely used) lived near Miss Linda, and he was a part-time outdoor cat, which was how we made his acquaintance. Then his clowns got evicted. Did they come around to their neighbors and say, "Listen, we can't take this nice black cat, would you adopt him?" Nope. They left him behind to scrounge a living door-to-door or get run over.

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As my kids mentioned just this week, we can't imagine life without New Old Dog. Our League of Extraordinary Elderly Pets is doing very well and deciding that their babysitting/herding of the Visigoth is pretty much over.

Old Dog wants a nap after lunch; Old Cat wants access to litterbox (door closed against toddler incursions); New Old Dog WANTS HIS NAP.

New Old Dog claims a corner of the couch and sets his jaw and determinedly closes his eyes. He won't open his eyes for the Visigoth's kisses, playtime seductions, or anything else.

New Old Dog keeps his eyes closed at naptime. Funniest thing I have ever seen.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 06, 2020 04:15 PM (MIKMs)

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The older cat, Chekov D. Siberian, is now on a hydrolyzed protein diet of dry food. So far so good about his digestive issues. I can't let him eat anything else, so when I give Wolf, the big black cat, his dinner and breakfast, it either has to be the hydrolyzed too (and this stuff ain't cheap), or I have to stand guard while Wolf eats his Purina so Chekov won't waltz over and get some. He's done it once, and his digestive problem came back briefly.

I also treated them for the next three months, I hope, with Bravecto topical flea treatment. Chekov was fine about it. Wolf submitted, then ran off and hid under the bed for an hour. He's scratching hardly at all now.

Next step is to remove them, cover food surfaces and so forth, and use the flea equivalent of Zyklon B in the house. It works -- it even got rid of roaches! -- but it's a lot of prep and cleanup after.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 06, 2020 04:20 PM (rpbg1)

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Skywch, thank you for your kind words and thoughts. His twin sister Blink is lost and crying for.him to come in the door. I keep looking for him, my little black monster.

what does she have to turn off on her phone to avoid the red screen of fail?

smart punctuation?

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 06, 2020 04:25 PM (5RpHt)

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NZFrank - sorry to hear about your kitty - don't they just grab your heart and won't let go? We have many loved pets buried in our backyard by the trees, and it never gets easier. My condolences to all of you who mourn for your buddies...if I didn't live so far away, you could have one of our outside cuties....

Posted by: misslurk'ette at June 06, 2020 04:26 PM (GDpRb)

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Doggie knows I have go out soon so she's doing nose nudges with my arm.

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Thanks for another wonderful Pet Thread, Mis Hum! I just love all the Pet Morons featured here!

I can certainly understand how hard it must be to be the Pet Thread Cob, reading the stories of great pets, superb owners, and knowing we are blessed to have these wonderful pets for only a brief period. I am so glad you share those stories with the Horde because there sure is a lot of love here. Thanks for all you do!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 06, 2020 04:29 PM (WFcrO)

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if I didn't live so far away, you could have one of our outside cuties....

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Hadrian, thank you for posting a photo of Duchess. She has been the recipient of many prayers on her behalf and I hope her health and her luck continues to improve! She's adorable.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 06, 2020 04:34 PM (WFcrO)

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The Pet Thread remains the one thread I dare not miss, even if I cannot get to it in real time. It is an amazing place with great pictures of beloved animals and reminders of the bond that good and decent humans can establish with members of diverse and quite different species. Even though I invariably find it gets quite dusty in here after I read a Pet Thread, I never fail to come away feeling there might still be a speck of hope for humanity yet.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 06, 2020 04:34 PM (mMLSg)

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I'm trying to train the corgi puppy, six months old next week, in some basic obedience.

My goal is to have her so well trained and so focused on me (and this is paramount) so I can walk around anywhere and she won't leave my left side.

But she has wild puppy impulses and it's hard to get her focused.

I am taking her to both the Lowe's and Home Depot here in town, daily, my treat pouch full of goodies, because those places are perfect settings, full of people, forklifts, noise, strange smells, and girls that want to pet her.

We stop a lot. She sits when we stop. Every time she looks at me she gets a nibble. Every time. YES! is the marker word.

I can readily get her to SIT and DOWN on command at home, but the DOWN is needing some work in the stores. We are getting there.

She loves attention and can sense anybody coming her way that is noticing her, and goes into full pull and jump if it is someone going "Oh! What a cute dog." This is the challenge. We want her to go , nose in air, and IGNORE a come-on.

She needs to act like Megan Markle ignoring a commoner.

Need to learn how to train for this behavior. Any hints are appreciated.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at June 06, 2020 04:35 PM (+fPHo)

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We stop a lot. She sits when we stop. Every time she looks at me she gets a nibble. Every time. YES! is the marker word.

Try holding your treat on your forehead when you want her to look at you.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 06, 2020 04:37 PM (mMLSg)

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The Pet Thread remains the one thread I dare not miss, even if I cannot get to it in real time. It is an amazing place with great pictures of beloved animals and reminders of the bond that good and decent humans can establish with members of diverse and quite different species. Even though I invariably find it gets quite dusty in here after I read a Pet Thread, I never fail to come away feeling there might still be a speck of hope for humanity yet.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 06, 2020 04:34 PM (mMLSg)
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^^^THIS^^^ You said it far better than I ever could!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 06, 2020 04:39 PM (WFcrO)

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Hadrian, thanks for the update and picture of Duchess, she looks like a lovely dog and I am glad she has you all to care for her!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 06, 2020 04:39 PM (mMLSg)

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So sorry for all the pets losses. That is a great pic of Murphy, and a great story, too.

Welcome to the wee pups, I'm sure they will bring much joy.

Thank you all for sharing your handsome and lovely pets.

Noodle the Kitteh will turn 17 in July. She tried to jump over the arm of the recliner the other day and didn't make it. The expression on her face was shock followed by "I totally meant to do that." Then she flicked her tail and walked away. But she's moving pretty slowly nowadays. Probably sleeps 20 hours a day.

Posted by: Gem at June 06, 2020 04:43 PM (kIHih)

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Come to this smart military blog for the heartwarming pictures of loved pets, stay for the social commentary. And the plucky co